Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology

by Christoph Menke

Book Overview

The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment. The claim is that the historical invention of aesthetics was not about expanding the range of legitimate objects of philosophical inquiry--these objects all existed before aesthetics. Rather, aesthetics, by introducing the category of the "aesthetic,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823249735
• ISBN13: 9780823249732
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"