Controversy and Construction in Contemporary Aesthetics

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The inclusion of this volume in Brill's Transcultural Aesthetics, a book series devoted primarily to multidisciplinary Western and non-Western aesthetics, is indispensable to enrich the nature and scope of contemporary aesthetics. Time and again, many aesthetic controversies have not been adequately addressed, and this has become a common concern among scholars in contemporary aesthetics. This volume therefore seeks to contribute new perspectives to these controversies by shedding light on some of the fresh views among the leading theorists working in the field today.

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Jie Wang is Qiushi Distinguished Professor and Yangtze River Scholar at the College of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Research on Marxist Aesthetics.

Zheng Shen is Associate Professor in the Shi Liangcai School of Journalism and Communication at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. She has published 11 SSCI/CSSCI/A&HCI papers and 2 books, including Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics and Criticism: Interviews with Western Scholars.

Armida de la Garza is Director of International Strategy for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of one monograph and 27 journal articles and book chapters.
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Introduction: Controversy and Construction in Contemporary Aesthetics: an Introduction
Jie Wang, Zheng Shen and Armida de la Garza

PART 1: Classical Theories and New Phenomena: Technological Advancements



1 Aesthetics and the Arts of Engagement
Arnold Berleant
2 Adorno, Stiegler, and Industrial Schemata of Experience
Tyrus Miller
3 Social Value and Aesthetic Judgement – Television in the UK
David Margolies
4 Industrial Development of New Media Arts in China
Qingben Li

PART 2: Classical Theories and New Phenomena: Aesthetic Capitalism



5 Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and Emergency Capitalism
Fabio Vighi
6 The ‘Cultivated Imagination as a Condition Precedent for Revolutionary Class-Struggle’
Michael Sanders
7 Contemporary Aesthetics Issues: New Horizons for Researches of Economic Aesthetics in Economic Sociology
Alexander Petrov

PART 3: Transcultural Aesthetics



8 Fiction and the Imagination
Derek Matravers
9 Cultural Industries and the Cultural Front – Historical and Contemporary Reflections
Justin O’Connor
10 Aesthetics of Atmosphere and Intercultural Studies
Zhuofei Wang
11 Practice, Reflection and Inspiration of Art Involvement in Community Revitalization in Japan
Yongjian Wang

PART 4: The Rise of Chinese Aesthetics



12 Identity and Hybridity – Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Age of Globalization
Karl-Heinz Pohl
13 The Kowtow and the Eyeball Test
Mario Wenning
14 Intermediality in Qing Ming Shang He Tu: from Visual Image to Music
Germán Gil-Curiel
15 New Research Directions of Marxist Aesthetics: a Case of Contemporary China
Zheng Shen
16 Aesthetic Modernity: a Preliminary Exploration of the Ethnography of Emotions in Contemporary China
Jie Wang and Tian Shi

PART 5: Multidisciplinary Aesthetics: Converging of Fields



17 What Does It Mean to be Human? A Critique of Design Thinking
Harold P. Sjursen
18 Aesthetic Anthropology: Constructing a New System of Contemporary Aesthetic and Art Criticism
Jie Wang and Fanjun Meng
19 ‘Crafting’ an Aesthetics of Science: Textile Artwork and Science Communication
Armida de la Garza and Zheng Shen
20 Contemporary Aesthetics from the Perspective of Cognitive Neuroscience—Centered on ‘Aesthetic Cognitive Mode’
Yushui Liang

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Students and researchers of international contemporary aesthetics.
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