TY - BOOK AU - Heller,Agnes AU - Rundell,John F. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Aesthetics and modernity: essays AV - BH39 .H445 2011eb U1 - 111/.85 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Aesthetics KW - Postmodernism KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10444478 ER -