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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Page 105
... knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.18 To know what an experience is like is to be possessed of a wholly different kind of knowledge from that involved in knowing what a ( material ) object of experience is like . In ...
... knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.18 To know what an experience is like is to be possessed of a wholly different kind of knowledge from that involved in knowing what a ( material ) object of experience is like . In ...
Page 217
... knowledge of a description of the feeling is no part of the enjoyment of these lines - unlike the ' knowledge by acquaintance ' of the feeling itself . Thus we arrive swiftly at the expressionist's conclusion . There may be no place in ...
... knowledge of a description of the feeling is no part of the enjoyment of these lines - unlike the ' knowledge by acquaintance ' of the feeling itself . Thus we arrive swiftly at the expressionist's conclusion . There may be no place in ...
Page 239
... knowledge of what is represented or expressed then this knowledge belongs to ' knowledge by acquaintance ' and can be conveyed in no other way . It is the experience of the work itself that summarizes what I know . Recognizing ...
... knowledge of what is represented or expressed then this knowledge belongs to ' knowledge by acquaintance ' and can be conveyed in no other way . It is the experience of the work itself that summarizes what I know . Recognizing ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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