Abstract

mongrel matter delivers the third and concluding volume of aesthetic literacy, an open, cross-genre book-exercise designed to cure academic exclusivism and, correspondingly, unabashed illiteracy: as a science and art of perception and experience, aesthetics is the first philosophy! this volume features more than 50 authors, including the likes of Paul C. Taylor (UCLA), Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Michel de Montaigne, Alan Tansman (Berkeley), Nkiru Nzegwu (CUNY), Mahmood Fazal (ABC), INO, Rrose (EAUX), Garry Hagberg (Bard), Richard Deming (Yale), Bernd Heinrich (Vermont), Wolfgang Welsch (Jena), and others ...