Aesthetics in a multicultural age / edited by Emory Elliott, Louis Freitas Caton, Jeffrey Rhyne.

Other author Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009.
Other author Caton, Louis Freitas.
Other author Rhyne, Jeffrey.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Can our values be objective? On ethics, aesthetics, and progressive politics / Satya P. Mohanty -- The pragmatics of the aesthetic / Giles Gunn -- Aesthetics and cultural studies / Winfried Fluck -- The resistance to cultural studies / John Carlos Rowe -- Desegregating American literary studies / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Difference and disciplinarity / Robyn Wiegman -- Doing justice to C.L.R. James's Mariners, renegades and castaways / Donald E. Pease -- Mumbo jumbo, theory, and the aesthetics of wholeness / Johnnella E. Butler -- Aesthetics again? The pleasures and the dangers / Paul Lauter -- "Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure": beauty discourse and the logic of aesthetics / Amelia Jones -- The aesthetics of wounding: trauma, self-representation, and the critical voice / Kathleen McHugh -- Beautiful identities: when history turns state's evidence / Chon A. Noriega -- Toward a pluralist aesthetics / Heinz Ickstadt.
General notePapers from conference entitled "Aesthetics and Difference", held October 22-24, 1998 by the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001021316
ISBN0195146328
ISBN0195146336 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BH221.U53 A33 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold