"A new wave of critical approaches to aesthetics create an interesting map of crucial questions surrounding the reconfiguration of the aesthetic field at the end of the 20th century –an age of great transformation in the hard passage from “ethnocentric particularism” to a“multicentric universalism”. Over the last few decades globalization has influenced cultures, human sensibility and creativity worldwide. These events prompt philosophers to reconsider the traditional patterns of thought, religi..
"A new wave of critical approaches to aesthetics create an interesting map of crucial questions surrounding the reconfiguration of the aesthetic field at the end of the 20th century –an age of great transformation in the hard passage from “ethnocentric particularism” to a“multicentric universalism”. Over the last few decades globalization has influenced cultures, human sensibility and creativity worldwide. These events prompt philosophers to reconsider the traditional patterns of thought, religion and art, to rethink the artistic canons and laws of taste and to reflect upon the structures of aesthetic transition in the light of the postindustrial era. Currently we can see a growing need to transform the previous models of comparison among the scientific and humanistic disciplines, as well as the arts and the senses. The truths of taste today can be perceived in the shift from ideas to history by way of emergent trends which are becoming guiding images. This entails observing the remains of the institution of aesthetics, with the intent of providing new frameworks ready to capture the mutable nature of sensibility and its liveliest impulses." Raffaele Milani
Building Surfer
