The Use of Art in the Construction of Personal Identity: A Phenomenology of Aesthetic Self-consciousness
Author:   Gregory V. Loewen
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
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9780773439290


Pages:   408
Publication Date:   August 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Gregory V. Loewen
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773439290


ISBN 10:   0773439293
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

Table of Contents

1. On the Construction of Aesthetic Selfhood; The subjectivities of art as art; 'Artism' and its vacancies; The autism of the artist; The role of the 'autist'; 2. Art as Projection; Throwing the Project; The Hell of Mirrors; Can You See the Real Me?; 3. Art as Memorialization; Self-Preservation; The Fact of Art as Artifact; The Next Exhibition; 4. Art as the Uncanny; The Full Presence of the Present; The Good and Evil Beyond; 'It was Nothing'; 5. Art as Identity; Focusing Finite Fragwurdigheit; Catching the Project; The 'Myth of Fingerprints'.

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...of great interest to those working Art theory, Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology. (Daniel Regnier St. Thomas More College University of Saskatchewan) ...This book is no less than an hermeneutic exposition of aesthetic subjectivity as we can know it today. (Prof. Michel Desjardins University of Saskatchewan)


"""...of great interest to those working Art theory, Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology."" (Daniel Regnier St. Thomas More College University of Saskatchewan) ""...This book is no less than an hermeneutic exposition of aesthetic subjectivity as we can know it today."" (Prof. Michel Desjardins University of Saskatchewan)"""


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