[csaa-forum] CCLCS Research Seminar Wednesday 17 March

[Andrew Milner]

Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Monash University
Melbourne

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Wednesday 17th March, 3.00 to 5.00 pm, Room W710, Menzies Building 
(Building 11), Monash University, Clayton Campus.

LANDMARKS WITHOUT LANDSCAPE: AESTHETICS AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF ART

Andrew Milner

Andrew Milner is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Centre. His most 
recent publications include Re-Imagining Cultural Studies (Sage, 2002), 
Contemporary Cultural Theory (Routledge, 2002, co-authored with Jeff 
Browitt), Literature, Culture and Society (Routledge, 2005), Postwar 
British Critical Thought (Sage, 2005, 4-volume edited collection) and 
Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and 
Dystopia (Peter Lang, 2010).

Abstract

The paper begins with a sociologically triumphalist critique of 
philosophical aesthetics, grounded on the work of Ernest Gellner and 
Emile Durkheim. It proceeds to note the practical failure of this kind 
of sociology to become institutionalised within the wider discipline. It 
explores a number of possible explanations for the failure, but finally 
suggests that a normalised sociology of art requires a normalised 
conception of art itself, such as that tentatively advanced by Pierre 
Bourdieu and Franco Moretti. The paper also has an autobiographical subtext.

All Welcome

For further details contact Professor Andrew Benjamin 
<Andrew.Benjamin at arts.monash.edu.au>



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