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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... affective theory of aesthetic description , we are forced to account for the appreciation of art in entirely emotional terms . As yet we do not know to which category of mental state the aesthetic experiences belong . Consequently , it ...
... affective theory of aesthetic description , we are forced to account for the appreciation of art in entirely emotional terms . As yet we do not know to which category of mental state the aesthetic experiences belong . Consequently , it ...
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... affective theory is an answer for one of them , it will be an answer for the other too . But how do we give content to this extremely simple theory that to see a work of art as sad is to respond to it in the way one responds to a man ...
... affective theory is an answer for one of them , it will be an answer for the other too . But how do we give content to this extremely simple theory that to see a work of art as sad is to respond to it in the way one responds to a man ...
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... affective ' theory . For we are led back once again to the concept of expressiveness : a concept which may be analysed without absurdity in a way that the affective theory demands . Normally , if I do something to express my feeling ...
... affective ' theory . For we are led back once again to the concept of expressiveness : a concept which may be analysed without absurdity in a way that the affective theory demands . Normally , if I do something to express my feeling ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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