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Inhalt :: Content
Online-Service mit Zugang zu einer kuratierten Sammlung von Primärtexten und über 120 E-Books, die erforschen, wie Philosophie und Ästhetik unsere heutige Gesellschaft, populäre Kultur und den Alltag prägen. Ein zentraler Baustein der Sammlung ist das Modul Aesthetics and Politics in the Global South. Es soll traditionelle, oft sehr westlich geprägte Theorien aufbrechen und zeigt die globalen Wurzeln und zeitgenössischen Gegenstücke ästhetischer Konzepte in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika auf. Auch indigene Kunst- und Wissensformen spielen hier eine wichtige Rolle. Ein besonderes Highlight sind die eigens für die Plattform in Auftrag gegebenen, illustrierten Fallstudien. Jede Studie hat ein konkretes Objekt oder Phänomen zum Gegenstand, z. B. das James-Webb-Weltraumteleskop, ein Kleidungsstück oder ein bestimmtes Kunstwerk, um komplexe Fragen zu Geschmack, Urteilskraft und der Natur von Kunst anschaulich zu erklären.
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
Bloomsbury Philosophy Library is a growing digital hub that provides access to the best of the Bloomsbury Philosophy list through subject-specific collections of key areas within the discipline.
Each collection, mapped onto an interdisciplinary philosophical topic or field, brings together an extensive mix of content types. Featuring a mix of primary texts, translations, secondary literature, exclusive articles, encyclopedia entries and images, this dynamic digital platform makes it possible to study key philosophical sub-fields in depth.
Collections offer a one-stop digital resource to subject areas within philosophy, literary studies, politics, and visual arts.
Bloomsbury History of Contemporay Aesthetics
Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics is a digital collection dedicated to the study of aesthetics and philosophy of art. Designed for undergraduates, postgraduates, faculty and scholars in philosophy, literature, and art departments, it aids teaching, supports research, and provides a new way of working in this vibrant field.
Comprised of a mix of content types, this resource features primary texts, exclusive case studies, a bank of images, secondary literature eBooks, and a digital-only reference work, Aesthetics and Politics in the Global South. Fully-searchable and browsable by theme, Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics reflects the depth, versatility, and relevance of aesthetics today.
Case Studies
Exclusively commissioned for Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics, each case study centers around a single artwork or everyday item. They cover a vast array of objects including sculpture, art installations, nature, food, theatre, and beards, offering alternate ways of interpreting art, creativity, and beauty. These are entertaining, illustrated introductions to core aesthetic questions about taste, judgement and the definition of art.
General Editor: Darren Hudson Hick, Furman University, USA
Aesthetics and Politics in the Global South
General Editor: J. Daniel Elam, The University of Hong Kong
An essential set of critical readings for understanding the global roots, context and counterparts of traditional aesthetic theories. It brings together selections from 47 aesthetic and political texts across South East Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America in the 20th century. Authors include ground-breaking thinkers, utopianists and revolutionaries including Rabindranath Tagore, Lu Xun, C.L.R. James, Suzanne Césaire, Claudia Jones, Albert Wendt, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Édouard Glissant. Aimed at students and scholars in philosophy, literary studies, and politics looking to decolonize the aesthetic tradition and expand their knowledge of aesthetics beyond Europe.
Primary Texts and Scholarly Monographs
The curated selection of over 100 eBooks cover aesthetics across the humanities, ranging from study guides and teaching aids to research texts and edited collections. Titles include Introducing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (Second Edition) and series such as Bloomsbury Aesthetics, Contemporary Aesthetics and Art, Contemporary Thinkers Reframed and Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art.
In partnership with Broadview Press, Hackett, Princeton University Press and Yale University Press, the Primary Texts include influential works in philosophical aesthetics by authors such as Mieke Bal, Monroe Beardsley, Nelson Goodman, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, and Francis Edward Sparshott.
Image Gallery and Video Case Studies
A collection of 200 images has been carefully selected by a team of philosophers who have identified visuals that can be used to spark class discussions or form the basis of a research paper. Images address issues such as the nature of aesthetic judgement, the status of art, and the place of arts within society.
Videos have been created around case studies to provide closer analysis of detail in the objects. Click here to watch the first set of videos accompanying ‘Okesa II: A Case Study in Indigenous Aesthetics as a non-Western Paradigm' and ‘Katharina Grosse, It Wasn't Us'.
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