Undoing Aesthetics

Informationen zum Autor Wolfgang Welsch is professor of philosophy at the Otto-Von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. He is the author of many works in German, two of which will shortly be available in English translations: Aesthetic Thinking; and Our Postmodern Modern (both forthcoming from The Humanities Press). Klappentext In this discussion of the aesthetic in everyday life the aesthetic codes of advertising, architecture, the Internet and everyday images are used as examples of the disorientation which a multiplication of codes creates. Welsch proposes untangling the `aestheticization of everyday life' and replacing it by more meaningful and durable categories. Zusammenfassung In this discussion of the aesthetic in everyday life the aesthetic codes of advertising, architecture, the Internet and everyday images are used as examples of the disorientation which a multiplication of codes creates. Welsch proposes untangling the `aestheticization of everyday life' and replacing it by more meaningful and durable categories. Inhaltsverzeichnis NEW SCENARIOS OF THE AESTHETIC Aestheticization Processes Phenomena, Distinctions and Prospects Basic Aesthetic Features in Contemporary Thinking Aesthet/hics Ethical Implications and Consequences of Aesthetics Aesthetics beyond Aesthetics For a New Form to the Discipline DIAGNOSES AND PROSPECTS How Modern was Modern Architecture? Contemporary Art in Public Space A Feast for the Eyes or an Annoyance? On the Hermeneutic Constitution of Art Cities of the Future Aspects from Architectural Theory and Cultural Philosophy On the Way to an Auditive Culture Artificial Paradises? Considering the World of Electronic Media - and Other Worlds Information Superhighway or Highway One?

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Inkpin, Wolfgang Welsch, Welsch Wolfgang
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.1997
• EAN: 9780761955931
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5593-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Theory, Culture & Society (Har; Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Semiotics / semiology, Cultural Studies;Social Theory