Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato To Lyotard

Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard

This book brings philosophical aesthetics into a broader cultural interest in the fine arts and draws together the classics of the history of aesthetics, the mid-twentieth century or "Analytic" aesthetics, and late-twentieth century or "Continental" post-structuralist "theory."About the AuthorA member of the English Department at Cleveland State University, Professor Jennifer Jeffers teaches a variety of 20th Century British and Irish Literature courses, critical theory, culture studies and film courses. She has edited a collection of essays on Samuel Beckett's drama, SAMUEL BECKETT: A CASEBOOK (Garland, 1998); she also has a new book under contract, GENDER, BODIES AND POWER: THE IRISH NOVEL IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (St. Martin's Press) and a manuscript forthcoming (Peter Lang), UNCHARTED SPACE: THE END OF NARRATIVE, which combines her interests in 20th Century aesthetics, theory, painting and literature. Professor Jeffers has articles in Mosaic, The Journal of Narrative Technique, Text & Presentation and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (forthcoming).