Black Is Beautiful de Paul C Taylor

Black Is Beautiful

Autor Paul C Taylor

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mai 2016

Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject. * The first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art * Takes an important step in assembling black aesthetics as an object of philosophical study * Unites two areas of scholarship for the first time - philosophical aesthetics and black cultural theory, dissolving the dilemma of either studying philosophy, or studying black expressive culture * Brings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another- from visual culture studies and art history to analytic philosophy to musicology - producing mutually illuminating approaches that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each * Well-balanced, up-to-date, and beautifully written as well as inventive and insightful

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405150620
ISBN-10: 1405150629
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

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As a part of Blackwell s Foundations series, A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics will help aesthetics engage with the broader contexts of humanistic inquiry and social life. It will join works like The Racial Contract and Blacks and Social Justice in connecting traditional philosophy to the life–worlds of the non–white majority. It will begin to fill the gaping holes that we find in the aesthetics literature. And it will provide a long–overdue synthesis of the many philosophical issues that arise from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, both in the fine arts and beyond.

A book that does all this should have the same kind of broad appeal as The Racial Contract and Blacks and Social Justice. It should be useful for college and university classes in aesthetics, which are more likely to try to reflect the diversity of their student populations than the reference volumes I mentioned above. As a concise overview of the central issues in black aesthetics, it might also benefit classes in African American studies, as well as the right sorts of courses in cultural studies and social theory. (Here as before, I have in mind classes for undergraduates as well as for beginning graduate students.) The book may also prove useful for scholars and especially for philosophers in search of a quick primer on the central questions in black aesthetics. Finally, and in keeping with the expectations of the series, the book should appeal to people outside the academy, to curious lay readers who want an accessible sketch of the issues that connect Jean Toomer and Wyclef Jean, Ali Farka Toure and Amiri Baraka.