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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... intention can be an important guide in our thought of these elusive things . A sense of intention may thus infect our whole way of reading literature , and without an understanding of the con- ventions through which intention is focused ...
... intention can be an important guide in our thought of these elusive things . A sense of intention may thus infect our whole way of reading literature , and without an understanding of the con- ventions through which intention is focused ...
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... intention that underlies expression in life . But if we approach the concept of expression in this way then we find that we are offered no real alternative to the ' affective ' theory . For we are led back once again to the concept of ...
... intention that underlies expression in life . But if we approach the concept of expression in this way then we find that we are offered no real alternative to the ' affective ' theory . For we are led back once again to the concept of ...
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... intention will determine our experience of art . The work of art is ' transparent ' to intention , so that at any level intention may operate through the medium of art , refining and transforming its effect on us . This is true not only ...
... intention will determine our experience of art . The work of art is ' transparent ' to intention , so that at any level intention may operate through the medium of art , refining and transforming its effect on us . This is true not only ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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