I first encountered Algiers through the childhood memories of a Palestinian friend who grew up there until she was fourteen years old.1 Algeria became her family’s home in the 1970s, when the Israeli authorities revoked her father’s residency after he had spent some time studying abroad.2 For many years, he was denied access to his […]
R. BRUCE ELDER / Woman’s Art and Ecological Aesthetics: The Way Forward
Poetry and community or, what is wrong with the West’s conception of artmaking? Learning from the poetry of Chinese Women Perhaps, as Oskar Kristeller’s renowned essay has it, in ancient cultures, there was no philosophical discipline equivalent to the modern discipline of aesthetics.1 What is nevertheless uncontestable is that pre-Classical and Classical philosophers reflected on […]