Venturing into the Uncharted World of Aesthetics

John Murungi, Linda Ardito (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

175 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-9281-0 (ISBN)

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The world of aesthetics is, itself, inextricable from the world as a whole. Indeed, as this book argues, it is among its essential features, and an invaluable key to its appreciation. Thus, to venture into the uncharted world of aesthetics is also to venture into this larger world, a world that might be called the “cosmos” or the “universe”. At the same time, to venture into this uncharted realm is to also blaze a trail to the self. This trail would, itself, be paradoxical, as it would end where it begins and begins where it ends. In this light, it may also be said that the uncharted world of aesthetics is the uncharted world of the self. This book provides insights into how works about aesthetics are also works reflective of the self, as well as works with endless possibilities of being.

John Murungi, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at Towson University, Maryland USA. His publications include African Philosophical Currents, African Philosophical Illuminations, and African Musical Aesthetics. He has co-edited and authored chapters in Home-Lived Experiences, Sensorial Trajectories, Elemental Sensuous, and Rendezvous with the Sensuous. His research focus is aesthetics, African philosophy, legal philosophy, and twentieth century philosophy. He is the Co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place.Linda Ardito, PhD, researches and writes extensively on subjects in the arts and humanities after a long and distinguished career in New York as Professor of Music. She has co-edited and authored chapters in Home-Lived Experiences, Sensorial Trajectories, Elemental Sensuous, and Rendezvous with the Sensuous. She has also authored chapters in Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts and Symbolic Landscapes, as well as journal articles in Skepsis, International Journal of Musicology, and Perspectives of New Music, among others.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-5275-9281-2 / 1527592812
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-9281-0 / 9781527592810
Zustand	Neuware