Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of MindSt. Augustine's Press, 1998 - 256 pages This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with questions in the philosophy of mind, and the third with questions in the philosophy of art. Thus the argument advances from a theory of aesthetic judgment (and in particular of "aesthetic description"), to a theory of aesthetic appreciation, and thence to an account of the nature and value of art. |
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... appreciation in aesthetics is difficult - more difficult even than it is in ethics . One source of difficulty is the obscurity of such heavily theoretical notions as ' aesthetic appreciation ' and ' aesthetic experience ' ; yet it is on ...
... appreciation in aesthetics is difficult - more difficult even than it is in ethics . One source of difficulty is the obscurity of such heavily theoretical notions as ' aesthetic appreciation ' and ' aesthetic experience ' ; yet it is on ...
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... aesthetic appreciation ( a view encouraged by standard empiricist theories of mind ) , and exists alongside the attempt to define appreciation as a self- subsistent realm of mental life , whose value , and whose place in human ...
... aesthetic appreciation ( a view encouraged by standard empiricist theories of mind ) , and exists alongside the attempt to define appreciation as a self- subsistent realm of mental life , whose value , and whose place in human ...
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... aesthetic terms that will be more in keeping with the tenor of our investigations . It is possible , as Wittgenstein ... appreciation of faces , gestures , characters , examples of things that can be loved or admired . The term ' exquisite ' ...
... aesthetic terms that will be more in keeping with the tenor of our investigations . It is possible , as Wittgenstein ... appreciation of faces , gestures , characters , examples of things that can be loved or admired . The term ' exquisite ' ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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