TY  - BOOK
ED  - Askin, Ridvan
ED  - Ennis, Paul J.
ED  - Hägler, Andreas
ED  - Schweighauser, Philipp
AB  - Ever since the turn of the century aesthetics has steadily gained momentum as a central field of study across the disciplines. No longer sidelined, aesthetics has grown in confidence. While this recent development brings with it a return to the work of the canonical authors (most notably Baumgarten and Kant), some contemporary scholars reject the traditional focus on epistemology and theorize aesthetics in its ontological connotations. It is according to this shift that speculative realists have proclaimed aesthetics as “first philosophy” and as speculative in nature. With speculative realism aesthetics no longer necessarily implies human agents. This is in alignment with the general speculative realist framework for thinking all kinds of processes, entities, and objects as free from our all-pervasive anthropocentrism, which states, always, that everything is “for us.”  This special volume of Speculations explores the ramifications of what could be termed the new speculative aesthetics. In doing so, it stages a three-fold encounter: between aesthetics and speculation, between speculative realism and its (possible) precursors, and between speculative realism and art and literature
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0068.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004545
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1176316586
KW  - speculative realism
KW  - philosophy
KW  - aesthetics
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - art
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/57edbc12-ccdd-4c9c-ae9a-a0963c03c247/1004545.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25550
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9780692203163
TI  - Speculations V: Aesthetics in the 21st Centurynull
ER  - 
