Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond

Introduction: sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond -- Queer beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the vicissitudes of the ideal -- The universal phallus: Hamilton, Knight, and the Wax phalli of Isernia -- Representative representation: Schopenhauer's ontology of art -- Double...

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Main Author: Davis, Whitney (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press , c 2010
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Author Notes:Whitney Davis
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond
  • Queer beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the vicissitudes of the ideal
  • The universal phallus: Hamilton, Knight, and the Wax phalli of Isernia
  • Representative representation: Schopenhauer's ontology of art
  • Double mind: Hegel, Symonds, and homoerotic spirit in renaissance art
  • The line of death: decadence and the organic metaphor
  • The sense of beauty: homosexuality and sexual selection in Victorian aesthetics
  • The aesthetogenesis of sex: "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, i
  • Love all the same: "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, ii
  • The unbecoming: Michel Foucault and the laboratories of sexuality
  • Fantasmatic iconicity: Freudianism, formalism, and Richard Wollheim.