Aesthetics and Aisthesis
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Aesthetics originated in the mid-eighteenth century as a branch of the theory of cognition; it was then - from Kant on - limited to the arts, the beautiful, and the sublime; eventually - starting in the last decade of the twentieth century - aesthetics has been rediscovered in its full dimension as a theory of sensate cognition. This volume contains the contributions to the 33 rd Wisconsin Workshop. The articles cover the revaluation of the history of aesthetics, neurobiological aspects of the processing of aisthesis, and multiple aspects of the most recent very lively debates about the realm, scope, and pertinence of aesthetics.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Aesthetics originated in the mid-eighteenth century as a branch of the theory of cognition; it was then - from Kant on - limited to the arts, the beautiful, and the sublime; eventually - starting in the last decade of the twentieth century - aesthetics has been rediscovered in its full dimension as a theory of sensate cognition. This volume contains the contributions to the 33 rd Wisconsin Workshop. The articles cover the revaluation of the history of aesthetics, neurobiological aspects of the processing of aisthesis, and multiple aspects of the most recent very lively debates about the realm, scope, and pertinence of aesthetics.
Autorenporträt
The Editor: Hans Adler (1944) is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he teaches German literature and culture from 1700 to the present, continental philosophy, and aesthetics. His publications include several books and numerous articles on German literature and culture, with a focus on J.G. Herder, K.Ph. Moritz, aesthetics, 19th-century novel, G. Büchner, L. Otto, G. Grass. He is editor of Monatshefte. His most recent publication has been Synästhesie. Interferenz-Transfer-Synthese der Sinne (with Ulrike Zeuch; 2002).