Taylor, Paul C.
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
- The first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art
- Takes an important step in assembling black aesthetics as an object of philosophical study
- Unites two areas of scholarship for the first time – philosophical aesthetics and black cultural theory, dissolving the dilemma of either studying philosophy, or studying black expressive culture
- Brings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another– from visual culture studies and art history to analytic philosophy to musicology – producing mutually illuminating approaches that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each
- Well-balanced, up-to-date, and beautifully written as well as inventive and insightful
Keywords: Aesthetics
Aesthetics
, American Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Black aesthetics, black culture, black theory, philosophical aesthetics, African American, authenticity, expression, primitivism, the ‘ethnographic present, ’ essentialism, retentions, purity, hybridity, transnationality, the Black Atlantic, Du Bois, August Wilson, aesthetic politics, fascism, surrealism, socialist realism, cultural nationalism, black preachers, Toni Morrison, kinetic orality, racial oppression, Aesthetics- Author(s)
- Taylor, Paul C.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
- Page amount
- 208 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118328699
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405150620