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Author | : Daniel Herwitz |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-05-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826432948 |
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Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical thought that arises from deep engagement with the arts. It is about larger issues such as meaning, identity, and medium that arise in the exploration of art, music, film and literature. Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy offers a thorough, lucid and stimulating account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. The text is thematically structured, covering the discipline's principal concepts: taste, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic experience, and the definition of art. It includes an overview of the history of aesthetics and guides the reader through the work of all major philosophers who have engaged with aesthetics.
Author | : Daniel Herwitz |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826489192 |
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An introduction to aesthetics for the student encountering this key philosophical subdiscipline for the first time.
Author | : Daniel Alan Herwitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : 9781472545398 |
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Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical thought that arises from engagement with the arts. It is about larger issues, such as meaning, identity, and medium, that arise in the exploration of art, music, film and literature. Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy offers a thorough, lucid and stimulating account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. The text is thematically structured, covering the discipline's principal concepts: taste, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic experience and the definition of art. Ideal for students across the arts and humanities, the book stresses.
Author | : Bence Nanay |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199658447 |
Download Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Bence Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very different, and may be easier to tackle, if we clarify the assumptions they make about perception and experience. He focuses on the ways in which the distinction between distributed and focused attention can help us re-evaluate various key concepts and debates in aesthetics.
Author | : Christian Helmut Wenzel |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1405150157 |
Download An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In An Introduction to Kant’s Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment, guiding the reader each step of the way and placing key points of discussion in the context of Kant’s other work. Explains difficult concepts in plain language, using numerous examples and a helpful glossary. Proceeds in the same order as Kant’s text for ease of reference and comprehension. Includes an illuminating foreword by Henry E. Allison. Offers twenty-six further-reading sections, commenting briefly on books and articles from the English, German, and French, that are relevant for each topic Provides an extensive bibliography and a chapter summarizing Kant's main points.
Author | : Oswald Hanfling |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1992-04-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631180357 |
Download Philosophical Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains surveys of the main issues in philosophical aesthetics, as discussed by thinkers from ancient Greece to modern times. It is written by members of the Open University and the intention throughout is to make the issues intelligible and interesting to as wide an audience as possible, including those readers with a general interest in the arts as well as more advanced students. The volume begins with questions about the nature of art and beauty. Are there any limitations to what may count as a work of art? Are imitations and forgeries really less valuable than original works? This is followed by discussions of aesthetic experience, truth and the 'imitation of nature' in works of art. In later chapters the emphasis is on the value and evaluation of art. Should art exist for the good of society? What justification is there for censorship in the case of pornography? The final chapters deal with Marxist theories of art, and with structuralist and post-structuralist views in recent continental writings.
Author | : Robert Stecker |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010-02-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1442201282 |
Download Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the original, while expanding its content, providing new features, and enhancing accessibility. Stecker introduces students to the history and evolution of aesthetics, and also makes an important distinction between aesthetics and philosophy of art. While aesthetics is the study of value, philosophy of art deals with a much wider array of questions including issues in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, as well value theory. Described as a 'remarkably unified introduction to many contemporary debates in aesthetics and the philosophy of art,' Stecker specializes in sympathetically laying bear the play of argument that emerges as competing views on a topic engage each other. This book does not simply present a controversy in its current state of play, but instead demonstrates a philosophical mind at work helping to advance the issue toward a solution.
Author | : Emily Brady |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107276268 |
Download The Sublime in Modern Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetics and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, Brady argues that the sublime is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world.
Author | : Peter B. Lewis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351872508 |
Download Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although universally recognised as one of the greatest of modern philosophers, Wittgenstein's work in aesthetics has been unjustly neglected. This is the first book exclusively devoted to Wittgenstein's aesthetics, exploring the themes developed by Wittgenstein in his own writing on aesthetics as well as the implications of Wittgenstein's wider philosophical views for understanding central issues in aesthetics. Drawing together original contributions from leading international scholars, this book will be an important addition to studies of Wittgenstein's thought, but its discussion of issues in literature, music and performing art, and criticism will also be of interest to many students of literary and cultural studies. Exploring three key themes - the capacity of the arts to illuminate our lives; the nature of the particular responses involved in understanding and appreciating works of art; the role of theory and principle in artistic and critical practice - the contributors address issues raised by contemporary philosophers of art, and seek to make connections between Wittgenstein's work and that of other significant philosophies of art in the Western tradition. Displaying the best practice of modern philosophical writing - clarity, cogency, respect for but not blind obedience to common sense, argument illustrated with detailed examples, rejection of speculation and pretension - this book demonstrates how philosophy can make a valuable contribution to understanding the arts.
Author | : Trevor Pateman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317232569 |
Download Key Concepts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1991. The arts can only thrive in a culture where there is conversation about them. This is particularly true of the arts in an education context. Yet often the discussion is poor because we do not have the necessary concepts for the elaboration of our aesthetic responses, or sufficient familiarity with the contending schools of interpretation. The aim of Key Concepts is to engender a broad and informed conversation about the arts. By means of over sixty alphabetically ordered essays, the author offers a map of aesthetics, critical theory and the arts in education. The essays are both informative and argumentative, with cross-references, a supporting bibliography and suggestions for further reading.