![[PDF] The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity](https://digzon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8fd45a5cf0a3a8ad6eaf022298a6f2f1-d.jpg)
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The essays in The Insistence of Art suggest ways in which the artworks and practices of the early modern period show the essentiality of aesthetic experience for philosophical reflection, and in particular for the rise of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline, while also showing art?s need for philosophy.
![[PDF] Cultural Controversies in the West German Public Sphere: Aesthetic Fiction and the Creation of Social Identities](https://digzon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/c5edad3602e31716db8a7ae8b8b0ac4b-g.jpg)
This book develops a theory of aesthetic fiction?s impact on social identities. Throughout five case studies, the author develops the argument that social identities are nurtured by and may even emerge through the conflict between different aesthetic expressions. As it creates affective structures, narrative fiction enables the development and formation […]
![[PDF] Croce on History: Aesthetic Defiguring](https://digzon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/29a55abdac0b0663db442184a3eabe70-g.jpg)
The book is the first critical reading of all the major writings on history by Benedetto Croce. The study is not a summary but a critical assessment based on the relevance of Croce’s aesthetics for his concept of history. This account differs from previous studies which are characterized by the […]
![[PDF] All Things Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology](https://digzon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/7d9d3313471f8cbd980c9a2a795e4424-g.jpg)
God calls humans to be creative. The human drive to represent transcendent truths witnesses to the fact that we are destined to be transfigured and to transfigure the world. It is worth asking, then, what truthful representations, whether in art, spirituality, or theology, teach us about the one who is […]
![[PDF] Aesthetic Revelation: Reading Ancient and Medieval Texts after Hans Urs von Balthasar](https://digzon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/92594cf1ed8ec9e17a630a5ee3842640-g.jpg)
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988), long considered one of the most important Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, is a central figure in the field of theological aesthetics. His “poetic” reading of ancient and medieval texts was intended to retrieve the role of the aesthetic in discerning the Divine in […]
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