Aesthetics in a multicultural age

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Group Author: Elliott Emory 1942-; Caton Louis Freitas.; Rhyne Jeffrey.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford New York
Publication Dates: 2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xiv, 299 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0195146328
0195146336 (pbk.)
Index Number: B83
CLC: B83-0
B83-171.2
Call Number: B83-0/A254/1998
Contents: Papers from conference entitled "Aesthetics and Difference", held October 22-24, 1998 by the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.