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From The Center To The Periphery The Changing Role Of Dress In The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Brigitte Glaser Jan 2007

From The Center To The Periphery The Changing Role Of Dress In The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Brigitte Glaser

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Spirituality Of Trees In Later Seventeenth-Century Horticulture, Sandra Sherman Jan 2007

The Spirituality Of Trees In Later Seventeenth-Century Horticulture, Sandra Sherman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Index Jan 2007

Index

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 2007

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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From The Court To The Colonies Jacobites Over The Water, Edward Corp Jan 2007

From The Court To The Colonies Jacobites Over The Water, Edward Corp

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Anne The Last And George The First Handel And The Politics Of Dynastic Succession, Christopher Paul Ssf Jan 2007

Anne The Last And George The First Handel And The Politics Of Dynastic Succession, Christopher Paul Ssf

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Feminine Identity In Eliza Haywood's The Wife And The Husband, Margo Collins Jan 2007

Feminine Identity In Eliza Haywood's The Wife And The Husband, Margo Collins

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Montesquieu's Persian Chain Letters A New Solution To The Riddle, Randolph Runyon Jan 2007

Montesquieu's Persian Chain Letters A New Solution To The Riddle, Randolph Runyon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


"Aaron's Serpent": The Ideology Of The "Master Passion" In English Serious Drama, 1660-1880, William J. Burling Jan 2007

"Aaron's Serpent": The Ideology Of The "Master Passion" In English Serious Drama, 1660-1880, William J. Burling

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Jacobite Travelers And Fellow-Travelers Jan 2007

Jacobite Travelers And Fellow-Travelers

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Justice Of Tom Jones A Reevaluation Of Henry Fielding's Moral Theory, Matthew Binney Jan 2007

The Justice Of Tom Jones A Reevaluation Of Henry Fielding's Moral Theory, Matthew Binney

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Orlando The Marriage Of Literary History And Humanities Computing, Isobel Grundy, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements Jan 2007

Orlando The Marriage Of Literary History And Humanities Computing, Isobel Grundy, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Some Further Thoughts On "Organic Georgics," Or, The Politics And Poetics Of Johnson's Manure, Michael Rotenbetg-Schwartz Jan 2007

Some Further Thoughts On "Organic Georgics," Or, The Politics And Poetics Of Johnson's Manure, Michael Rotenbetg-Schwartz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 2007

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Diderot's Uncle, Hegel Or, Rameau's Nephew As A Branch Of The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Isabelle C. Demarte, J. M. Fritzman Jan 2007

Diderot's Uncle, Hegel Or, Rameau's Nephew As A Branch Of The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Isabelle C. Demarte, J. M. Fritzman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Jacobites And Freemasons In Sweden Esoteric Intelligence And Exoteric Politics, Maisha K. Schuchard Jan 2007

Jacobites And Freemasons In Sweden Esoteric Intelligence And Exoteric Politics, Maisha K. Schuchard

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


"A Polish Lady" The Art Of The Jacobite Print, Neil Guthrie Jan 2007

"A Polish Lady" The Art Of The Jacobite Print, Neil Guthrie

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Editorial Jan 2007

Editorial

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Notices Jan 2007

Notices

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Aesthetics And The Environment: Repatriating Humanity, Nikolaos Gkogkas Jan 2007

Aesthetics And The Environment: Repatriating Humanity, Nikolaos Gkogkas

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

If aesthetics is to claim its place among the fundamental philosophical disciplines, it must adequately deal with the ecological challenge, that is, the need to explain the continuity-relation between human and non-human environments. To that effect, Arnold Berleant's aesthetics of engagement constitutes an attractive proposal. Its critics (Allen Carlson and others) seem to miss its point and attack it on the basis of a particular understanding of Kantian aesthetics (mainly the disinterestedness thesis). But not only can Berleant's aesthetics meet the ecological challenge; it is also possible that it encourages a re-evaluation of traditional aesthetic categories (like disinterestedness) without necessarily …


Recent Publications Jan 2007

Recent Publications

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Words And Worlds: Irony Makes Literary Creations, Alastair Goff Jan 2007

Words And Worlds: Irony Makes Literary Creations, Alastair Goff

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this paper I take up anew the suggestion recurrent in the work of Kierkegaard and Lukács, among others, that literature is fundamentally ironic. Literary creations, I argue, are ironic because they convey the real world, even though the worldhood of this world is ineffable. In creating a world from words in a novel or poem, the author confronts his or her own skepticism about the possibilities of written expression. Literary creations are only completed when the reader is able to engage with the world of words that is constituted in the work, and to realize that what is said …


Geoaesthetics: New Orleans, Landscape, And Eros, Robert Frodeman Jan 2007

Geoaesthetics: New Orleans, Landscape, And Eros, Robert Frodeman

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The success of contemporary society in producing knowledge serves to highlight the breakdown between knowledge production and its use. New Orleans and Katrina offer one example of this breakdown. All the knowledge necessary for acting beforehand was available; the problem was not one of knowledge but of will. Geoaesthetics, appropriating the erotic nature of our relationship to the land, is offered as an inter- and transdisciplinary means for making disciplinary knowledge more pertinent.


Cockroaches, Or Worlds As Images, Nathalie Blanc Jan 2007

Cockroaches, Or Worlds As Images, Nathalie Blanc

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The cockroach is an insect of tropical origin whose presence in urban space draws our attention to the fact that the city is not only an artificial and controlled universe but also a porous one because of the interstices through which the animals slip. This article analyzes the role of animals in cities, and more particularly of the cockroach, in the city dweller's imagination and in the construction of an aesthetic experience of urban life. Imagination, metaphor, and domestication are the clues to understanding a sharp, active thought of the lived environment. One will thus approach the place of aesthetics …


Acquired Taste, Kevin Melchionne Jan 2007

Acquired Taste, Kevin Melchionne

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Acquired taste is an integral part of the cultivation of taste. In this essay, I identify acquired taste as a form of intentional belief acquisition or adaptive preference formation, distinguishing it from ordinary or discovered taste. This account of acquired taste allows for the role of self-deception in the development of taste. I discuss the value of acquired taste in the overall development of taste as well as the ways that an over-reliance on acquired taste can distort overall taste.


Film And The Public Memory: The Phenomena Of Nonfiction Film Fragments, James F. Moyer Jan 2007

Film And The Public Memory: The Phenomena Of Nonfiction Film Fragments, James F. Moyer

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Film theory and philosophy have in recent decades rightly critiqued earlier theorists' claims for the fundamentally realist nature of the cinema, and of photography generally. While cognizant of the problematic status of "realist" representation-of photography being somehow purely or naively representative-this essay nevertheless deliberately recuperates a realist discourse with which to value some forms of nonfiction film. The essay sees "nonfiction film fragments" as a form of witnessing, and tries to articulate our experience of such film in terms of memorializing the people and events it bears witness to. The essay goes even further in its claims on behalf of …


Implied World Views In Pictures: Reflections From A Cognitive Psychological And Anthropological Point Of View, Michael Ranta Jan 2007

Implied World Views In Pictures: Reflections From A Cognitive Psychological And Anthropological Point Of View, Michael Ranta

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In traditional art history, iconological attempts to analyze visual works of art by treating their formal and semantic features as symptoms of more general, implied world views or cultures have occurred rather frequently. Still, such attempts have been criticized for permitting subjective and non-verifiable interpretations. In this paper, however, I will argue that (i) pictorial works of art indeed imply wider world views or schemata, and (ii) that our comprehension of these schemata can be explained by taking into account recent research within cognitive psychology. More specifically, I will argue that intelligence partly consists of the storage and retrieval of …


Poetics And Maieutics: Literature And Tacit Knowledge Of Emotions, Stefán Snaevarr Jan 2007

Poetics And Maieutics: Literature And Tacit Knowledge Of Emotions, Stefán Snaevarr

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The theme of this paper is the idea that imaginative literature can disclose our tacit knowledge of emotions. It this does with the aid of such devices as metaphors and similes. The kind of insight we get thanks to the disclosive power of literature is akin to that which Kjell S. Johannessen has called 'knowledge by familiarity,' Frank Palmer 'knowing what' and Charles Taylor implicitly 'the result of articulation.' I defend the theory that at least some important emotions cannot be understood (or even exist) outside of behavioral contexts and that this understanding is mainly tacit. I try to show …


Review: Biblical Faith And Other Religions: An Evangelical Assessment, Michael S. Jones Jan 2007

Review: Biblical Faith And Other Religions: An Evangelical Assessment, Michael S. Jones

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Paleolithic Flints: Is An Aesthetics Of Stone Tools Possible?1, Riva Berleant Jan 2007

Paleolithic Flints: Is An Aesthetics Of Stone Tools Possible?1, Riva Berleant

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper asks whether an aesthetics of Paleolithic tools is possible, and if so, what it might be. The application of our own aesthetic sensibilities to artifacts of prehistory is not difficult. We easily recognize and appreciate their visual and tactile qualities. The more complicated questions that the paper explores are whether we can uncover the aesthetic sensibilities of their makers and, if we cannot, whether aesthetic examination of prehistoric tools from our own perspectives is adequate or useful. The paper is based on study of Paleolithic flints from French archaeological sites dating from about 500,000 years ago to about …