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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... play is not a means for arousing dramatic emotions , and hence to the extent that one's enjoyment of a play consists in the experience of these emotions it is not aesthetic - for the play might equally have been replaced by some other ...
... play is not a means for arousing dramatic emotions , and hence to the extent that one's enjoyment of a play consists in the experience of these emotions it is not aesthetic - for the play might equally have been replaced by some other ...
Page 164
... play : I may not even know that it is a play . If my better - informed companion tells me that it must really be taken as a play , then my interest changes , and I begin to attend to quite different features of what I see , even though ...
... play : I may not even know that it is a play . If my better - informed companion tells me that it must really be taken as a play , then my interest changes , and I begin to attend to quite different features of what I see , even though ...
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... play or a novel for the truthfulness of its vision , where truthfulness means truthful depiction . Here the ' unasserted ' thoughts involved in understanding the work may depend for their existence on the recognition of certain complex ...
... play or a novel for the truthfulness of its vision , where truthfulness means truthful depiction . Here the ' unasserted ' thoughts involved in understanding the work may depend for their existence on the recognition of certain complex ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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