Overview
Carsten Strathausen's exploration ofbioaesthetics is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as atimely critique of its limitations. He familiarizes readers with the basics ofbioaesthetics, grounding them in its philosophical underpinnings whilearticulating its key components and highlighting the longstanding problem ofthe ""two cultures"" that separate the arts and the sciences.
Full Product Details
Author: Carsten Strathausen
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Volume: 43
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
ISBN: 9781517900755
ISBN 10: 1517900751
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 October 2017
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Professional & Vocational
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
If you've ever wondered how we've gotten to the point where virtually every cultural theory field now boasts a `bio-' or `neuro-' subfield, Carsten Strathausen's Bioaesthetics is an excellent guide. Setting the stage with scrupulous readings of historical controversies, Strathausen then incisively critiques the reductionist `biologism' he finds in `literary Darwinism,' `biopoetics,' `neuroaestethics,' and so on, before judiciously tackling Deleuze and affect theory. A powerful and insightful study, Bioaesthetics rewards the reader with clarifying and careful mappings of important contemporary concepts. -John Protevi, author of Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences
If you've ever wondered how we've gotten to the point where virtually every cultural theory field now boasts a 'bio-' or 'neuro-' subfield, Carsten Strathausen's Bioaesthetics is an excellent guide. Setting the stage with scrupulous readings of historical controversies, Strathausen then incisively critiques the reductionist 'biologism' he finds in 'literary Darwinism, ' 'biopoetics, ' 'neuroaestethics, ' and so on, before judiciously tackling Deleuze and affect theory. A powerful and insightful study, Bioaesthetics rewards the reader with clarifying and careful mappings of important contemporary concepts. --John Protevi, author of Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences
Author Information
Carsten Strathausen is professor of German and English and Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in Humanities at the University of Missouri. He is editor of A Leftist Ontology: Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics (Minnesota, 2009) and author of The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900, as well as translator of Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media by Boris Groys.
