Undoing Aesthetics / Edition 1

by Wolfgang Welsch

Overview

In this discussion of the aesthetic in everyday life the aesthetic codes of advertising, architecture, the Internet and everyday images are used as examples of the disorientation which a multiplication of codes creates. Welsch proposes untangling the ‘aestheticization of everyday life' and replacing it by more meaningful and durable categories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761955948
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/12/1998
Series:	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Wolfgang Welsch is professor of philosophy at the Otto-Von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. He is the author of many works in German, two of which will shortly be available in English translations: Aesthetic Thinking; and Our Postmodern Modern (both forthcoming from The Humanities Press).

Table of Contents

NEW SCENARIOS OF THE AESTHETIC
Aestheticization Processes
Phenomena, Distinctions and Prospects
Basic Aesthetic Features in Contemporary Thinking
Aesthet/hics
Ethical Implications and Consequences of Aesthetics
Aesthetics beyond Aesthetics
For a New Form to the Discipline
DIAGNOSES AND PROSPECTS
How Modern was Modern Architecture?
Contemporary Art in Public Space
A Feast for the Eyes or an Annoyance?
On the Hermeneutic Constitution of Art
Cities of the Future
Aspects from Architectural Theory and Cultural Philosophy
On the Way to an Auditive Culture
Artificial Paradises?
Considering the World of Electronic Media - and Other Worlds
Information Superhighway or Highway One?