The Aesthetics of Uncertainty

by Janet Wolff

Book Overview

Janet Wolff advances a "postcritical" aesthetics grounded in shared values that are negotiated in the context of community. She relates this approach to contemporary debates about a committed politics similarly founded on the abandonment of certainty. Neither universalist nor relativist, the "aesthetics of uncertainty" provides a discourse on beauty that contemporary critics can engage with and offers a basis for judgment that is committed to assigning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231140975
• ISBN13: 9780231140973
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher