Aesthetics and modernity [electronic resource] : essays / by Agnes Heller ; edited by John Rundell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Agnes Heller: modernity, aesthetics and the human condition, an interpretative essay / John Rundell -- What went wrong with the concept of the beautiful? -- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: Shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of Greece : Germans and Greeks -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.