Name: Venturing into the Uncharted World of Aesthetics
SKU: 1-5275-9281-2
Availability: InStock

Venturing into the Uncharted World of Aesthetics

Edited By: John Murungi, Linda Ardito

From £33.99

To venture into the uncharted world of aesthetics is to explore the cosmos and blaze a trail to the self. This book provides insights into how works about aesthetics are also works reflective of the self, with endless possibilities of being.

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…

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 begin 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.

Linda Ardito, John Murungi, Alphonso Lingis, Monica Toledo Silva, Ellen Miller, Donald Kuspit, Bongrae Seok, Kip Redick