Art at the Limits of Perception: The Aesthetic Theory of Wolfgang Welsch

by Jerome Carroll

This book traces the significance that the modulations of sensory perception have had for thinking about aesthetics and art in the last two and a half centuries. Beyond a discussion of the philosophical significance of beauty, or of the puzzle of aesthetic representation, aesthetics is conceived broadly as a means of describing our relationship to the world in terms of the habits of perception, and indeed the overturning of these habits, as in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039105698
• ISBN13: 9783039105694
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"