| Description |
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Can our values be objective? On ethics, aesthetics, and progressive politics / Satya P. Mohanty -- The pragmatics of the aesthetic / Giles Gunn -- Aesthetics and cultural studies / Winfried Fluck -- The resistance to cultural studies / John Carlos Rowe -- Desegregating American literary studies / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Difference and disciplinarity / Robyn Wiegman -- Doing justice to C.L.R. James's Mariners, renegades and castaways / Donald E. Pease -- Mumbo jumbo, theory, and the aesthetics of wholeness / Johnnella E. Butler -- Aesthetics again? The pleasures and the dangers / Paul Lauter -- "Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure": beauty discourse and the logic of aesthetics / Amelia Jones -- The aesthetics of wounding: trauma, self-representation, and the critical voice / Kathleen McHugh -- Beautiful identities: when history turns state's evidence / Chon A. Noriega -- Toward a pluralist aesthetics / Heinz Ickstadt. |
| Note |
Papers from conference entitled "Aesthetics and Difference", held October 22-24, 1998 by the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, American -- Congresses.
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Cultural pluralism -- United States -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009.
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Caton, Louis Freitas.
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Rhyne, Jeffrey.
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| ISBN |
0195146328 |
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0195146336 paperback |
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