Notions of the Aesthetic and of Aesthetics
Essays on Art, Aesthetics, and Culture
Samenvatting
The essays deal with the aesthetic and aesthetics; Bourdieu’s critique of aesthetics form and content in the arts, musical formalism, the nature and value of literature, Heidegger’s philosophy of art, postmodernism and history, Lyotard and the sublime, and the challenge of evolutionary psychology to the humanities.