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"This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, the book challenges longstanding teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the separation of aesthetics from moral, cognitive, and political interests.
The chapters are divided into three thematic parts. The chapters in Part I demonstrate the heteronomy of eighteenth-century British aesthetics. They chart the evolution of aesthetic concepts and discuss the ethical and political significance of the aesthetic theories of several key figures, namely the third Earl of Shaftesbury, David Hume, and Adam Smith. Part II explores the ways in which eighteenth-century German thinkers examine aesthetic experience and moral concerns and relate to the work of their British counterparts. The chapters here cover the work of Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and Madame de Staël. Finally, Part III explores the interrelation of science, aesthetics, and a new model of society in the work of Goethe, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Friedrich Hölderlin, and William Hazlitt, among others.
This volume develops unique discussions of the rise of aesthetic autonomy in the eighteenth century. In bringing together well-known scholars working on British and German eighteenth-century aesthetics, philosophy, and literature, it will appeal to scholars and advanced students in a range of disciplines who are interested in this topic."

"This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, the book challenges longstanding teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the separation of aesthetics from moral, cognitive, and political interests.
The chapters are divided into three thematic parts. The chapters in Part I demonstrate the heteronomy of eighteenth-century British aesthetics. They chart the evolution of aesthetic concepts and discuss the ethical and political significance of the aesthetic theories of several key figures, namely the third Earl of Shaftesbury, David Hume, and Adam Smith. Part II explores the ways in which eighteenth-century German thinkers examine aesthetic experience and moral concerns and relate to the work of their British counterparts. The chapters here cover the work of Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and Madame de Staël. Finally, Part III explores the interrelation of science, aesthetics, and a new model of society in the work of Goethe, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Friedrich Hölderlin, and William Hazlitt, among others.
This volume develops unique discussions of the rise of aesthetic autonomy in the eighteenth century. In bringing together well-known scholars working on British and German eighteenth-century aesthetics, philosophy, and literature, it will appeal to scholars and advanced students in a range of disciplines who are interested in this topic."

"This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, the book challenges longstanding teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the separation of aesthetics from moral, cognitive, and political interests.
The chapters are divided into three thematic parts. The chapters in Part I demonstrate the heteronomy of eighteenth-century British aesthetics. They chart the evolution of aesthetic concepts and discuss the ethical and political significance of the aesthetic theories of several key figures, namely the third Earl of Shaftesbury, David Hume, and Adam Smith. Part II explores the ways in which eighteenth-century German thinkers examine aesthetic experience and moral concerns and relate to the work of their British counterparts. The chapters here cover the work of Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and Madame de Staël. Finally, Part III explores the interrelation of science, aesthetics, and a new model of society in the work of Goethe, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Friedrich Hölderlin, and William Hazlitt, among others.
This volume develops unique discussions of the rise of aesthetic autonomy in the eighteenth century. In bringing together well-known scholars working on British and German eighteenth-century aesthetics, philosophy, and literature, it will appeal to scholars and advanced students in a range of disciplines who are interested in this topic."

Alderson Creek (AC) is a small stream, approximately 2.4 km long, located about 100 kilometers from Kelowna, British Columbia. It passes through seven private properties that produce alfalfa-grass hay, raise cattle, horses and poultry. The creek and riparian corridor is substantially degraded, with sinking stream banks, siltation of the watercourse, loss of native riparian vegetation, and loss of fish habitat (Alderson Creek Remediation Plan, 2014). Channelization of the stream, lack of maintenance, as well as other inadequate management practices, have resulted in permanently flooded farmland (10.4 acre), cases of animals drowning in one part of the creek (due to unrestricted access for cattle) and disease problems such as foot rot for animals that are frequently in wet conditions. In 2014, landowners along the creek formed a non-profit society called the "Alderson Creek Restoration Environmental Society" (ACRES) to cooperatively address issues resulting from the state of the creek. In the same year, the proposal for a Group Environmental Farm Plan (GEFP) was submitted to BC Government. The plan proposed a set of solutions including fencing to keep cattle out of the creek, installing off-stream livestock watering and/or controlled livestock access to the stream, installing additional drainage infrastructure and planting natural vegetation to support the stream bank and provide shading and habitat. This document presents an accounting of the costs and benefits of the project. Some of these costs and benefits are experienced by the land owners themselves, while others impact the larger community. Riparian corridors in particular provide extensive environmental services which include water flow regulation, attractive visual aesthetics, and habitat for terrestrial and aquatic flora and fauna. This study relies on the Benefit Transfer methodology to attach values to the expected ecosystem services after the restoration. The analysis was conducted for two possible project scenarios, a three meter and a five meter riparian buffer on either side of the creek. The lifetime of the project was taken to be 20 years and the net benefits (Benefits – Costs) were discounted using a 3% and 5% discount rate. Results showed positive net benefits for both scenarios when cash flows are discounted at 3%. Results suggest that a five meter riparian buffer results in the largest net benefit, calculated as Net Present Value (NPV= $53,422). With a three meter riparian buffer and using a 5% discount rate, net benefits are negative (NPV= - $5,865). The internal rate of return (IRR) for the three and five meter buffer scenarios was 4.64% and 5.41% respectively. ; Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences (Okanagan) ; Land and Food Systems, Faculty of ; Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, Department of (Okanagan) ; Unreviewed ; Faculty ; Graduate

This study tackles the aesthetics, politics and ethics of androgyny, focusing on five novels of contemporary British writers: Brigid Brophy's In Transit, Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body, Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and Will Self's Cock and Bull. The first part examines the aesthetic dimension of androgyny, a myth of metamorphic value that destabilizes notions of space, time, bodily constraints and gendered identity. The second part analyses the interplay between the grotesque and hybrid dimensions of the hermaphroditic body in reclaiming the monstrous as a means to renegotiate identity in terms of a multiplicity and to redefine the relationship of the individual to Otherness. This finally allows to examine the political and ethical values of the hermaphrodite that articulates the non‐foundational Levinasian ethics of alterity with the more practical approach to otherness of the ethics of care. ; Ce travail traite de la figure de l'androgyne dans la littérature britannique contemporaine, à travers un corpus de cinq œuvres de la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle : les romans de Brigid Brophy, In Transit, d'Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve, de Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, de Peter Ackroyd, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem et de Will Self, Cock and Bull. La première partie examine la valeur plastique de l'androgyne qui agit dans les textes comme opérateur de métamorphoses et balise un terrain textuel de l'instabilité et de la réversibilité, permettant de penser les opposés dans un rapport de pro‐thèse plus que synthèse. La seconde partie étudie les divers aspects de la monstration, dans la perspective de dégager la double logique de l'exhibition et de la renégociation de la norme liées à l'hermaphrodisme. Enfin, la troisième partie traite des dimensions éthique et politique de la figure, dans la mesure où l'androgyne permet de réarticuler la notion de sujet comme étant interconnecté à, constitué par et responsable de l'Autre, ...

This study tackles the aesthetics, politics and ethics of androgyny, focusing on five novels of contemporary British writers: Brigid Brophy's In Transit, Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body, Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and Will Self's Cock and Bull. The first part examines the aesthetic dimension of androgyny, a myth of metamorphic value that destabilizes notions of space, time, bodily constraints and gendered identity. The second part analyses the interplay between the grotesque and hybrid dimensions of the hermaphroditic body in reclaiming the monstrous as a means to renegotiate identity in terms of a multiplicity and to redefine the relationship of the individual to Otherness. This finally allows to examine the political and ethical values of the hermaphrodite that articulates the non‐foundational Levinasian ethics of alterity with the more practical approach to otherness of the ethics of care. ; Ce travail traite de la figure de l'androgyne dans la littérature britannique contemporaine, à travers un corpus de cinq œuvres de la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle : les romans de Brigid Brophy, In Transit, d'Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve, de Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, de Peter Ackroyd, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem et de Will Self, Cock and Bull. La première partie examine la valeur plastique de l'androgyne qui agit dans les textes comme opérateur de métamorphoses et balise un terrain textuel de l'instabilité et de la réversibilité, permettant de penser les opposés dans un rapport de pro‐thèse plus que synthèse. La seconde partie étudie les divers aspects de la monstration, dans la perspective de dégager la double logique de l'exhibition et de la renégociation de la norme liées à l'hermaphrodisme. Enfin, la troisième partie traite des dimensions éthique et politique de la figure, dans la mesure où l'androgyne permet de réarticuler la notion de sujet comme étant interconnecté à, constitué par et responsable de l'Autre, engendrant une pensée de la relation éthique mais également pratique de la sollicitude.

Bourdieu's Distinction (1984) has been highly influential in sociological debates regarding cultural inequality, but it has rarely been considered a theory of aesthetics. In this article we explore empirically how the modernist framing of Bourdieu's aesthetics needs to be rethought in the context of contemporary aesthetic change. Drawing on a survey of museum visitors in Ghent, Belgium ( n = 1195), we use Multiple Correspondence Analysis to analyse what aesthetic dimensions are important when people contemplate works of art. We find that the familiar Bourdieusian opposition between popular (based on beauty and harmony) and highbrow aesthetics is still important. However, the content of highbrow aesthetics has changed, now privileging 'postmodernist' dimensions over modernist ones. We can also detect another dimension that favours a socially reflexive art compared to a detachment of art from social preoccupations, which is not recognized in Bourdieu's account.

The Art of the Modernist Body explores the fraught relationship between corporeality and the genesis of new language in modernist literature. The dissertation argues that the history of disability in the early twentieth century facilitates a revised account of Anglo-American modernism; specifically, the modernists' formal preoccupation with loss, deficiency, and absence, long regarded as a vital aspect of the movement, can be re-imagined productively through the heuristic of disability theory. The project likewise reveals that many of modernism's signature novelties, including free verse, Imagism, and the embrace of ordinary speech, are influenced by artists' attempts to represent physical deviance. Each text in question is generated out of repeated encounters with extraordinary figures or forms, and the artists openly challenge the conceptual, social, and political parameters that delimit the ideal human body. Their literature also reminds us that the modernist period is a remarkably inchoate time in terms of how the body is imagined. Two World Wars, the rise of the machine age, and advances in prosthetic and rehabilitative medicine are just a few of the phenomena that brought the human form to the forefront of British and American culture, with politicians, cultural critics, industrial scions, workers, artists, and soldiers all tussling over the social and economic value of imperfect bodies. Accordingly, many accounts from the period resist any entrenched, discrete notions of normality and abnormality, and acts of corporeal discipline, normalization, and rehabilitation are neither roundly condemned nor applauded. The confluence of multiple visions of corporeality not only alters the cultural landscape, but it also affects the very language through which the experience of physical difference is articulated. The novelists and poets herein record both processes, namely by producing what might be called a "contingency of corporeality:" they define the superlative modernist body as a hybrid entity, a form that registers the dueling forces of normalization and destabilization.

From blog posts to critical work, to the writing of fanfiction narratives, that extend the serial narrative, the serial form has established itself since the 1990s as a mass cultural device. The use of costumes from The Handmaid's Tale in demonstrations across the world has proved the political efficiency of TV series, through the borrowing of their imagery in contemporary political movements. This work aims to prove that the political efficiency of the serial form lies above all in its aesthetic organization. The way in which series make bodies visible, and cut out abilities and inabilities in the sensitive world they have created, points out their intrinsically political dimension. The study of female gender in Black Mirror, Mad Men, Orange is the New Black, The Handmaid's Tale, This is England and Top of the Lake shows that the series is a place of political exploration. Conceptions of femininity can indeed vary according to the diegetic universes, and are shown through a singular division of fictional time and space, revealing that the serial medium is the site of the construction and deconstruction of gender identities. The series sets itself up as a factory of femininity, since female characters always stand out onscreen according to modalities that translate creative and political choices. In reaction to the intra-diegetic of metafictional limitations that weigh on female characters, the intimate gesture or relationship amount to a form of dissent. The establishment of relationships that are not governed by the rules of the diegetic universe indeed authorizes an interchangeability in gendered postures. The political efficiency of the series under study lies in their aesthetic capacities to foster new versions of femininity. ; Des billets de blogs aux travaux critiques, jusqu'à la conception de récits de fanfiction, qui viennent prolonger le récit sériel, la forme sérielle s'établit depuis les années 1990 comme un dispositif culturel de masse. L'utilisation des costumes de The Handmaid's Tale pour des manifestations dans le monde a également prouvé l'efficacité politique des séries, grâce à l'emprunt de leur imagerie dans les mouvements politiques contemporains. Ce travail a pour but de prouver que l'efficacité politique des séries réside avant tout dans leur organisation esthétique. La manière dont elles mettent en visibilité les corps, et découpent des capacités et des incapacités dans le monde sensible qu'elles ont créé, nous renseigne sur leur dimension intrinsèquement politique. L'étude du genre féminin dans les séries Black Mirror, Mad Men, Orange is the New Black, The Handmaid's Tale, This is England et Top of the Lake permet de montrer que la série est le lieu d'une exploration politique. Les conceptions de la féminité varient selon les univers diégétiques, et se traduisent par un découpage des espaces et des temps fictionnels singulier, révélant ainsi que le médium sériel est le lieu de la construction et de la déconstruction des identités de genre. La série s'érige en fabrique de la féminité, puisque les personnages féminins se distinguent à l'écran selon des modalités qui expriment toujours des choix créatifs et politiques. Face aux limitations intra-diégétiques ou métafictionnelles qui pèsent sur le genre féminin, le geste ou la relation intimes viennent faire dissidence. L'établissement de relations qui ne sont pas régies par les règles des univers diégétiques autorise en effet une interchangeabilité des postures genrées. L'efficacité politique des séries du corpus tient alors à leurs capacités esthétiques à proposer de nouvelles versions de la féminité.

From blog posts to critical work, to the writing of fanfiction narratives, that extend the serial narrative, the serial form has established itself since the 1990s as a mass cultural device. The use of costumes from The Handmaid's Tale in demonstrations across the world has proved the political efficiency of TV series, through the borrowing of their imagery in contemporary political movements. This work aims to prove that the political efficiency of the serial form lies above all in its aesthetic organization. The way in which series make bodies visible, and cut out abilities and inabilities in the sensitive world they have created, points out their intrinsically political dimension. The study of female gender in Black Mirror, Mad Men, Orange is the New Black, The Handmaid's Tale, This is England and Top of the Lake shows that the series is a place of political exploration. Conceptions of femininity can indeed vary according to the diegetic universes, and are shown through a singular division of fictional time and space, revealing that the serial medium is the site of the construction and deconstruction of gender identities. The series sets itself up as a factory of femininity, since female characters always stand out onscreen according to modalities that translate creative and political choices. In reaction to the intra-diegetic of metafictional limitations that weigh on female characters, the intimate gesture or relationship amount to a form of dissent. The establishment of relationships that are not governed by the rules of the diegetic universe indeed authorizes an interchangeability in gendered postures. The political efficiency of the series under study lies in their aesthetic capacities to foster new versions of femininity. ; Des billets de blogs aux travaux critiques, jusqu'à la conception de récits de fanfiction, qui viennent prolonger le récit sériel, la forme sérielle s'établit depuis les années 1990 comme un dispositif culturel de masse. L'utilisation des costumes de The Handmaid's Tale pour des ...

The seventeenth century in Britain produced a distinct and unique genre of embroideries; embroideries that were the work of women who have in general maintained, historically, a low profile. In recent years, with an increased 'female consciousness', attention has been given to these textiles, and much of what has been said is a matter of some controversy. The concerns of this thesis are therefore two-fold: to look at the women and their work, and in so doing to attempt to clarify some of the arguments surrounding them. No art form exists independently of its creators, and they in turn are the product of their society, so a section of this work is concerned with the place of women in seventeenth century society. Differences in this position from one period to another may indicate the reasons for corresponding changes in the work they created. Similarly, these attitudes and aesthetics do not spring fully fledged into a new century, so it was necessary to pick up the threads of the sixteenth century, and then to look at the trends that were to be more fully developed in the eighteenth century. The scope of the objects covered in this thesis is therefore wide; a major part of the study being concerned with pattern sources of the period, in an attempt to understand the true context of the embroideries in the general aesthetic of the seventeenth century. In doing so, one may also gain an understanding of personal concerns, economic changes and political tensions of the period, as they affected the embroiderer, as well as that of the economic and sociological power bases of the period – and in the seventeenth century the influence of religion on both.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Life in the Contact Zone -- 1 Travel and Exploration Literature: Constructing the New World -- 2 Approaching Sublimity: Aesthetics, Exploration, and the Northwest Coast -- 3 Science and Ethnography: The Field of Vision -- 4 Cook and the Cannibals: The Limits of Understanding -- 5 Reconstructing Cook -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

My dissertation tracks the dialectical development of liberal subjectivity from eighteenth-century cultures of sensibility to the development of pragmatist-feminism at the turn of the twentieth century. Scholars have recently developed models for understanding transatlantic circuits of exchange and their importance in the development of interiority. Secularizing Sentiment , in focusing on the shift from sensibility and sentiment to pragmatism and feminism, participates in these discussions by framing liberal discourse in terms of affective conflict and aesthetic innovation. In particular, it anatomizes the generative contradictions of liberal subjectivity, on the one hand enamored of the text's power to order experience, on the other terrified of the threat to selfhood posed by iteration. Secularizing Sentiment theorizes the shift from sentimentalism to pragmatist-feminism as transatlantic states struggle with economic liberalization, industrialization, and growing rates of literacy. It emphasizes literacy as a technology accompanied by predictable conflicts, providing new lines of inquiry across an expanding archive of print and material culture made available by digitization.Chapter One considers Bluestocking sociality and Della Cruscan poetics by way of Sarah Wilmot nee Morris, a presumably unpublished poet whose manuscript miscellanies I found while doing archival research at Chawton House Library. Chapters Two and Three, through close attention to transatlantic novels and poetry of sensibility and sentiment, characterize sentimental subjectivity in terms of manic literacy, referred to by Jacques Derrida as the pharmakon, and how manic literacy gives rise to regulatory hermeneutic regimes. These regimes of interpretation - such as sensibility, sentimentalism, realism, and pragmatism - check the free play of the text according to powerful social and institutional structures. Chapters Four and Five complicate my theorization of liberal subjectivity, considering how the Civil War and the rise of clinical discourse threaten sentimental presumptions. Chapter 6, through readings of John Dewey, Jane Addams, and William James, demonstrates how pragmatist-feminism emerges as a sentimental critique of clinical discourse, thus placing it in the broader genealogy of liberal subjectivity explicated in Chapters One through Five.

"Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate. The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in European politics and culture. "--