Bloomsbury Cosmopolitan Aesthetics: Art in a Global World

New social realities and changes in contemporary art are impacting our traditional ideas about aesthetics. Art, art markets and aesthetics now interact in ways that demand new forms of thought. Cosmopolitan Aesthetics presents the first thorough account of the challenges facing aesthetics today, introducing the history that underpins them. This is an ideal starting point for anyone looking to better understand 21st century aesthetics and art. Not only does Daniel Herwitz show how aesthetics was born as a series of philosophical positions on taste, beauty and the sublime, he explains what a global world means for aesthetics. Beginning with globalization and the nature of global art markets, Daniel Herwitz covers postcolonial aesthetics, nationalism, colonialism, and the uneasy connection between aesthetics and politics before providing a crucial grounding in 18th and 19th century aesthetics, with discussion of the two great modern aestheticians David Hume and Immanuel Kant.