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Author | : Oswald Hanfling |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1992-04-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631180357 |
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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 | : 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 | : Noël Carroll |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2001-04-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521786560 |
Download Beyond Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.
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 | : Frank Sibley |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2001-05-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191519499 |
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Approach to Aesthetics is the complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics. Their appearance within a single volume will be welcome to scholars and students of aesthetics. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of five substantial papers written in his later years and hitherto unpublished. Most of the published papers are concerned with a group of related topics: the nature of aesthetic qualities and their relation to non-aesthetic qualities, the relation of aesthetic description to aesthetic evaluation, the different levels of evaluation, the objectivity of aesthetic judgement. The later papers constitute both a continuation and a significant development of Sibley's individual approach to aesthetics. One group of papers discusses the distinction between attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, first elucidating the distinction, and then considering its application to 'beautiful' and 'ugly'. Another major paper is an extensive study of the aesthetic significance of tastes and smells, a topic Sibley considered to be much neglected, whose examination could throw interesting light on the boundaries of the concept of the aesthetic. This collection constitutes a wide ranging yet coherent account of aesthetics by one of the most acute philosophical minds of his generation, one which is and will continue to be a source of controversy and a model of analytical method.
Author | : Jerrold Levinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2011-02-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199596638 |
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Previous ed.: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Author | : Owen Hulatt |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231542208 |
Download Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting the thinker's claim that both philosophy and art are capable of being true. For Adorno, truth is produced when rhetorical "texture" combines with cognitive "performance," leading to the breakdown of concepts that mediate the experience of the consciousness. Both philosophy and art manifest these features, although philosophy enacts these conceptual issues directly, while art does so obliquely. Hulatt builds a robust argument for Adorno's claim that concepts ineluctably misconstrue their objects. He also puts the still influential thinker into conversation with Hegel, Husserl, Frazer, Sohn-Rethel, Benjamin, Strawson, Dahlhaus, Habermas, and Caillois, among many others.
Author | : Jerrold Levinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2005-01-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199279456 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.
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 | : Jerrold Levinson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780801482267 |
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