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An International Association for Aesthetics Book Series
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The International Association for Aesthetics’ book series, Transcultural Aesthetics, represents research findings and continuing discussions by members of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA) and by invited guest-authors and guest-editors as well. The multinational character of IAA, its geographical and ethnic diversity, provides, through these monographs and edited volumes, a forum for the critical interpretation of issues and debates within contemporary global aesthetics. Furthermore, this poly-facetted spectrum generates a repertoire differing in methodological perspectives, disciplines, and specializations. The association is thus addressing with its series some of the most urgent global challenges from the perspective of aesthetics: inter- and trans-disciplinary western and non-western aesthetics, geopolitical aesthetics (ecologically and politically motivated migration; re-evaluating colonialism and its cultural heritage), relations between philosophical and cultural oriented aesthetics, media- and techno-aesthetics, aesthetics of historical and contemporary arts. The Transcultural Aesthetics book series publishes individual and collective works in which historical, geographical, and contemporary problems of understanding and developing aesthetic theories are elaborated in a transdisciplinary way, thus exploring novel fields of aesthetic discourse. In going beyond this goal, it explicitly aims, in juxtaposing traditional as well as current aesthetic concepts from different cultures, at a continuous synergetic exchange of critical ideas.
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This exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the voluntary and the spiritual. The conscious, active self is constituted in its sovereign autonomy, as free and undivided, by an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.
Volume Editor:
This exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the voluntary and the spiritual. The conscious, active self is constituted in its sovereign autonomy, as free and undivided, by an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.
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From 1889 to 1934, Henri Bergson differentiated between two aspects of a dynamic naturalism: on the one hand, a rationalized "homogeneous duration" that quantifies a dissected reality by means of symbolisation, and on the other hand, intuited "heterogeneous moments" that dissolve symbols in representing continuously interpenetrating elements qualitatively. These concurring vitalistic conceptions, one of an intellectual, the other of an intuitive nature, can equally be detected in Beckett's attempts to integrate being into art. This comparative inquiry examines resonances of Bergson's vitalism as residual elements of his fading influence in Beckett's early works.
Breaking new ground, this anniversary-volume devoted to history and theory of global radio play offers an initial exemplary cross-cultural as well as intercultural investigation by inviting its readership to compare distinct disseminative modes in their development from continent to continent. This multifaceted analysis is a collaborative multinational effort of scholars from various disciplines, including literature, anthropology, media, audio, gender, theater, and cultural transfer studies, who are magnifying the soundscapes of audio narratology in Japan, Korea, India, sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Romania, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Eastern and Western Germany, and Austria. Through this recalibrated approach towards formerly segregated soundscapes, the book aspires to transcend research boundaries rendered by national languages.
100 Years of Global Radio Play
Breaking new ground, this anniversary-volume devoted to history and theory of global radio play offers an initial exemplary cross-cultural as well as intercultural investigation by inviting its readership to compare distinct disseminative modes in their development from continent to continent. This multifaceted analysis is a collaborative multinational effort of scholars from various disciplines, including literature, anthropology, media, audio, gender, theater, and cultural transfer studies, who are magnifying the soundscapes of audio narratology in Japan, Korea, India, sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Romania, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Eastern and Western Germany, and Austria. Through this recalibrated approach towards formerly segregated soundscapes, the book aspires to transcend research boundaries rendered by national languages.