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The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity
ISBN: 9780823275823
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Aesthetics;

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.

Paul Kottman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Love as Human Freedom (forthcoming), Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe , and A Politics of the Scene . Paul Kottman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Love as Human Freedom (forthcoming), Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe , and A Politics of the Scene .