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Coles Aesthetics and the Claims of History: Philosophy as Interpretation at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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This book examines how the project of philosophical aesthetics can be reconciled with historical experience. It challenges the assumption that aesthetic inquiry is separate from historical understanding and offers a hermeneutic method to revisit key texts from Immanuel Kant to Jacques Rancière. The author shows that aesthetics, in its origins, engages deeply with ethical and political concerns, and traces how its development sustains a dynamic link between aesthetics and history. The first part of the book tends to support the distinction between aesthetics and history instead of arguing in favour of their confluence. Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel are read together as offering different but comparable approaches to aesthetics. Both philosophers are shown to relate aesthetics to matters of time, ethics and community, with Hegel sometimes bringing aesthetics and history close together. Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger are then discussed to indicate how various life practices allow for either the articulation or criticism of aesthetic discourse. In the second part of the book, the work of Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière demonstrates that aesthetics carries a promissory meaning and maintains an ongoing relationship with practical life. Arendt and Adorno are read either as a political theorist with a keen interest in the interface between history and aesthetics or as a cultural historian who relates aesthetics to the modern movement in the arts. Foucault and Rancière are shown to share a concern for the genealogical but also to return to aesthetics through different historical venues. The book concludes by arguing that aesthetics and history constitute a network of mutual implication, without becoming identical. The book offers a critical and historically grounded perspective on aesthetics and its enduring relevance to contemporary thought. The book should be of use to advanced students, researchers and scholars in philosophy, to academics in literary studies, history and cultural studies, and to political theorists interested in the relationship between aesthetics and historical experience.
This book examines how the project of philosophical aesthetics can be reconciled with historical experience. It challenges the assumption that aesthetic inquiry is separate from historical understanding and offers a hermeneutic method to revisit key texts from Immanuel Kant to Jacques Rancière. The author shows that aesthetics, in its origins, engages deeply with ethical and political concerns, and traces how its development sustains a dynamic link between aesthetics and history. The first part of the book tends to support the distinction between aesthetics and history instead of arguing in favour of their confluence. Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel are read together as offering different but comparable approaches to aesthetics. Both philosophers are shown to relate aesthetics to matters of time, ethics and community, with Hegel sometimes bringing aesthetics and history close together. Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger are then discussed to indicate how various life practices allow for either the articulation or criticism of aesthetic discourse. In the second part of the book, the work of Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière demonstrates that aesthetics carries a promissory meaning and maintains an ongoing relationship with practical life. Arendt and Adorno are read either as a political theorist with a keen interest in the interface between history and aesthetics or as a cultural historian who relates aesthetics to the modern movement in the arts. Foucault and Rancière are shown to share a concern for the genealogical but also to return to aesthetics through different historical venues. The book concludes by arguing that aesthetics and history constitute a network of mutual implication, without becoming identical. The book offers a critical and historically grounded perspective on aesthetics and its enduring relevance to contemporary thought. The book should be of use to advanced students, researchers and scholars in philosophy, to academics in literary studies, history and cultural studies, and to political theorists interested in the relationship between aesthetics and historical experience.
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