The Aesthetics of Matter

The Aesthetics of MatterIt has often been argued that the arrival of the early 20th century avant gardes and modernisms coincided with an in depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. This third volume of the series European Avant Garde

Mahr asks if object-theoretical aesthetics is possible at all

and theoretical problems

as well as when the vernacular languages started to play a role in medical literature

adjudication and public reason

favor-asking

donde fuimos felices

and new stars are conquering new platforms to build their adoring audiences and enhance their images

For more than twenty centuries

The generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage

heightened fears by exposing the vulnerability of food and water supplies to attacks by bioterrorists

storytelling

and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have been leveled against neo-Kantianism