CIJPCA 2013 - Aesthetics values and the process of civilization

Call for papers
Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
Vol. X, No. 2/2013
“Aesthetics values and the process of civilization”
What is the relationship between the beautiful, the birth of aesthetics and the process of civilization? In the Eighteenth Century aesthetics was the moment of maximum enhancement of subjectivity, to which was given the power to criticize, evaluate, imagine and enjoy. This return to the subject of a lead role on the history stage also brought with it the danger of extreme subjectivism and impending relativism. The assertion of this subjectivism, which has forgotten that the aesthetic feeling is the engine of civilization and inspirator of the idea of progress, to be, in the contemporary age, the pro-ponent of a general process of decivilization, subtracting to the aesthetics its historical and social value.
The following are some sub-themes that can be used as guides:
-Aesthetics and society of the spectacle
-Aesthetics and political ideology
-Beauty and democracy in the ancient world
-Aesthetics and modernity
-Aesthetics and individualism
-Art, wit and Baroque Society
-Art and society
Deadline for paper submissions: 31.08.2013
Submission can be made via email at journal.axiology-AT-yahoo.com or using the Guest Editor’s ad-dress for the special numbers. For guidelines on manuscript preparation and submission, please visit our journal website at http://www.international-journal-of-axiology.net/.
For additional information regarding this call for papers, please contact the Guest Editor’s of this issue: Prof. Dr Aldo Marroni, Department of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
E-mail: aldomarroni-AT-unich.it
Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology is published by Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: http://www.peterlang.de/ . This journal is indexed in Thomson Reuters (ISI) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index, SCOPUS (Elsevier) and in some of the major databases.