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Different Aesthetics

Principles – Questions – Perspectives
  • Edited by: Annette Gerok-Reiter , Jörg Robert , Matthias Bauer and Anna Pawlak
  • Translated by: David B. Dollenmayer
  • Funded by: Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 Andere Ästhetik
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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What is art? What does art offer? Why does art move us? The CRC Different Aesthetics pursues these questions. In doing so, and by directing its attention towards the 2000-year history of European culture and art before the 18th century, it aims to transform perspectives within aesthetic discussions. This volume introduces the research undertaken by the CRC 1391. It outlines the benefits of concentrating on the pre-modern period, lays out the subsequent adjustments to analytical tools and methods, and presents the resulting consequences for the study of aesthetics.

The contributions, which range from philology and literary studies, art history, archaeology, and musicology to historical science, theology, and the digital humanities offer concrete examples of this approach.

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Annette Gerok-Reiter, Jörg Robert, Matthias Bauer and Anna Pawlak, Tübingen University, Germany.

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Frontmatter

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Foreword

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Contents

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Introduction

Annette Gerok-Reiter, Jörg Robert, Matthias Bauer and Anna Pawlak
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I. Principles and Program
Different Aesthetics – Premodern Acts and Artifacts. The Program of the Tübingen Collaborative Research Center 1391

Annette Gerok-Reiter and Jörg Robert
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II. Practices and Performances
Purism – Discourses and Practices of Language Purity

Sarah Dessì Schmid and Jörg Robert
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Tafelmusik. Music and Banqueting in the Premodern Era

Silke Leopold
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Bathing and Spa Music as a Space of Reflection for a Different Aesthetics

Lorenz Adamer and Thomas Schipperges
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Ars militaris. The Art of War as Aesthetic Practice in the 18th Century

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
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III. Manifestations and Interactions
Aesthetic Negotiations in Devotional Texts. A Comparison of Chapter II,25 of The Flowing Light of the Godhead and Meister Eckhart’s Sermon 57

Annette Gerok-Reiter and Volker Leppin
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The Violence of Caritas. Acting Personifications as Figures of Aesthetic Reflection

Sandra Linden and Daniela Wagner
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Can Aesthetics Be Counted? Systematic Annotation and Quantitative Analysis of Narrational Comments in the Sagas of Icelanders

Anna Katharina Heiniger, Nils Reiter, Nathalie Wiedmer, Stefanie Gropper and Angelika Zirker
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Addressing the Viewer. 12th- and 13th-Century Byzantine Wall Paintings

Barbara Schellewald
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IV. Concepts and Revisions
Ekphrasis Reshaped. A Different Poetics of Ekphrasis in Hellenistic Poetry, or: A Metapoetics of Aesthetics

Irmgard Männlein
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Parapictoriality. Parameters of a Praxeological Aesthetics in Antiquity

Adrian Stähli
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The Art of Illusion and the Aesthetics of Reality

Mireille Schnyder
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Aesthetics, Canon, Critique. Transalpine Creative Appropriation and Cultural Hybridity as a Challenge to Archeology and Art History

Johannes Lipps and Anna Pawlak
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Figures and Charts

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Index

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eBook published on:
May 19, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783110768763
Hardcover published on:
May 19, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110768640
Edition:
English translation of "Andere Ästhetik. Grundlagen – Fragen – Perspektiven" (AÄK 1)
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Front matter:
11
Main content:
523
Illustrations:
53
Coloured Illustrations:
40
Tables:
1
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768763
eBook ISBN: 9783110768763
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110768640
Keywords for this book
Aesthetics; pre-modern period; art; ars
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Researchers working in all disciplines pertaining to the humanities, the social sciences, and religious studies
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