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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... Criticism is a matter of judiciously referring to the first - order features that another might have missed , or attached a wrong importance to , and then hoping that the emergent property will become apparent also to him . ( I shall ...
... Criticism is a matter of judiciously referring to the first - order features that another might have missed , or attached a wrong importance to , and then hoping that the emergent property will become apparent also to him . ( I shall ...
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... criticism is to show the importance of association in the appreciation of art.4 The temptation is to say that I am not merely associating fatness and Wednesday in the judgement that I make ( although of course this is trivially true ) ...
... criticism is to show the importance of association in the appreciation of art.4 The temptation is to say that I am not merely associating fatness and Wednesday in the judgement that I make ( although of course this is trivially true ) ...
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... criticism . In particular , I have offered no solution to the critic's most vexing problems : the problem of objectivity and the problem of value . Any detailed treatment of such issues would require arguments at least as complicated as ...
... criticism . In particular , I have offered no solution to the critic's most vexing problems : the problem of objectivity and the problem of value . Any detailed treatment of such issues would require arguments at least as complicated as ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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