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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... Suppose , then , that I classify all works of art as sad or not sad : I classify them into two groups , with perhaps a third group in between where the question whether or not they are sad is undecidable . Now suppose also that someone ...
... Suppose , then , that I classify all works of art as sad or not sad : I classify them into two groups , with perhaps a third group in between where the question whether or not they are sad is undecidable . Now suppose also that someone ...
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... Suppose I begin to think of the way my grand- mother looked . I say to myself : ' Let me think . . . she usually wore blue , her hair was grey , she had a funny way of peering down her nose ' , and so on . Did my thought of the way she ...
... Suppose I begin to think of the way my grand- mother looked . I say to myself : ' Let me think . . . she usually wore blue , her hair was grey , she had a funny way of peering down her nose ' , and so on . Did my thought of the way she ...
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... suppose that a musical utterance could be understood by being translated into a verbal utterance is to suppose that the former belongs to a symbol scheme to which it does not , in fact , belong . To understand a musical utterance is not ...
... suppose that a musical utterance could be understood by being translated into a verbal utterance is to suppose that the former belongs to a symbol scheme to which it does not , in fact , belong . To understand a musical utterance is not ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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