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    Aesthetic Appreciation, Ethics, and 9/11.Emmanouil Aretoulakis - 2008 - Contemporary Aesthetics 6.
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    Avoiding the Speed of Science: The Nonquest for the New in Literary Studies.Emmanouil Aretoulakis - 2012 - Philosophy and Literature 36 (1):17-36.
    In an age of disseminated fear and globalized anxiety about the accelerated rhythms of modern life, should literary studies and criticism strive for the altogether “new”? I am interested in whether the intensive search for the “new” or “next” in contemporary culture is of any importance for literary studies. I argue that too much intellectual risk is involved in persistently calling for the new in the appraisal of a literary, or other, text. The scientific and “civilized” quest for a new (...)
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    Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture.Emmanouil Aretoulakis - 2016 - Langham: Lexington Books.
    The book explores the forbidden feelings of beauty, admiration, or satisfaction before instances of terror and human pain from eighteenth-century natural disasters to twenty-first-century terrorist destruction. It explores the fascination felt by the subject witnessing major disasters directly or in a mediated fashion. Emmanouil Aretoulakis' makes the challenging proposition that there is, paradoxically, an ethics in the aesthetic appraisal of terror.
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