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Author : Marcia Muelder Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028789142
Author : Morris Weitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OCLC:813671110
Author : Monroe C. Beardsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : NWU:35556023395197
Author : Monroe C. Beardsley
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0915145081
This second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley's classic work.
Author : Yuriko Saito
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191608537
Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko Saito provides a detailed investigation into our everyday aesthetic experiences, and reveals how our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments can exert a powerful influence on the state of the world and our quality of life. By analysing a wide range of examples from our aesthetic interactions with nature, the environment, everyday objects, and Japanese culture, Saito illustrates the complex nature of seemingly simple and innocuous aesthetic responses. She discusses the inadequacy of art-centered aesthetics, the aesthetic appreciation of the distinctive characters of objects or phenomena, responses to various manifestations of transience, and the aesthetic expression of moral values; and she examines the moral, political, existential, and environmental implications of these and other issues.
Author : Monroe C. Beardsley
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780817366230
Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics Before the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English—Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and the comprehensive volume by Gilbert and Kuhn. While each of these is interesting in its own ways, and together they cover a good deal of ground, none of them is very new. Thus none could take advantage of recent work on many important philosophers and periods and bring into a consideration of the past the best concepts and principles that have been developed by present-day philosophy.
Author : Eliseo Vivas,Murray Krieger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:923179432
Author : Haun Saussy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766616
The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic calls for and applies a new model of comparative literature - one that, instead of taking for granted the commensurability of traditions and texts, gives incompatibility and contradiction their due. Exposing contemporary literary theory to the risks of ancient Chinese literature (and vice versa), this book considers a linked series of case studies. To what degree does the translation between languages and texts that we call comparative literature depend on allegory or translation within a single text or language? The author offers an important, new perspective on the reading of the Shih-ching or Book of Odes and the question of allegory and metaphor in the Chinese poetic tradition.
Author : Morris Weitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MINN:31951002394498F
Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199279454
'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.
Author : Morris Weitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OCLC:65081084
Author : C. Thi Nguyen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780190052089
"Games are a unique art form. The game designer doesn't just create a world; they create who you will be in that world. They tell you what abilities to use and what goals to take on. In other words, they specify a form of agency. Games work in the medium of agency. And to play them, we take on alternate agencies and submerge ourselves in them. What can we learn about our own rationality and agency, from thinking about games? We learn that we have a considerable degree of fluidity with our agency. First, we have the capacity for a peculiar sort of motivational inversion. For some of us, winning is not the point. We take on an interest in winning temporarily, so that we can play the game. Thus, we are capable of taking on temporary and disposable ends. We can submerge ourselves in alternate agencies, letting them dominate our consciousness, and then dropping them the moment the game is over. Games are, then, a way of recording forms of agency, of encoding them in artifacts. Our games are a library of agencies. And exploring that library can help us develop our own agency and autonomy. But this technology can also be used for art. Games can sculpt our practical activity, for the sake of the beauty of our own actions. Games are part of a crucial, but overlooked category of art - the process arts. These are the arts which evoke an activity, and then ask you to appreciate your own activity. And games are a special place where we can foster beautiful experiences of our own activity. Because our struggles, in games, can be designed to fit our capacities. Games can present a harmonious world, where our abilities fit the task, and where we pursue obvious goals and act under clear values. Games are a kind of existential balm against the difficult and exhausting value clarity of the world. But this presents a special danger. Games can be a fantasy of value clarity. And when that fantasy leaks out into the world, we can be tempted to oversimplify our enduring values. Then, the pleasures of games can seduce us away from our autonomy, and reduce our agency."--
Author : Bence Nanay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191077449
Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very different, and may beAesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very different, and may be easier to tackle, if we clarify the assumptions they make about perception and about experiences in general. The focus of Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is the concept of attention and the ways in which this concept and especially the distinction between distributed and focused attention can help us re-evaluate various key concepts and debates in aesthetics. Sometimes our attention is distributed in an unusual way: we are attending to one perceptual object but our attention is distributed across its various properties. This way of experiencing the world is special and it plays an important role in characterizing a number of phenomena associated with aesthetics. Some of these that the book talks about include picture perception and depiction, aesthetic experiences, formalism, the importance of uniqueness in aesthetics, and the history of vision debate. But sometimes, in some aesthetic contexts, our attention is not at all distributed, but very much focused. Nanay closes his argument with an analysis of some paradigmatic aesthetic phenomena where our attention is focused: identification and engagement with fictional characters. And the conflict and interplay between distributed and focused attention is an important feature of many artworks.
Author : Christian Helmut Wenzel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405150156
In An Introduction to Kant’s Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment, guiding the reader each step of the way and placing key points of discussion in the context of Kant’s other work. Explains difficult concepts in plain language, using numerous examples and a helpful glossary. Proceeds in the same order as Kant’s text for ease of reference and comprehension. Includes an illuminating foreword by Henry E. Allison. Offers twenty-six further-reading sections, commenting briefly on books and articles from the English, German, and French, that are relevant for each topic Provides an extensive bibliography and a chapter summarizing Kant's main points.
Author : Elisabeth Schellekens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441122988
Aesthetic and moral value are often seen to go hand in hand. They do so not only practically, such as in our everyday assessments of artworks that raise moral questions, but also theoretically, such as in Kant's theory that beauty is the symbol of morality. Some philosophers have argued that it is in the relation between aesthetic and moral value that the key to an adequate understanding of either notion lies. But difficult questions abound. Must a work of art be morally admirable in order to be aesthetically valuable? How, if at all, do our moral values shape our aesthetic judgements - and vice versa? Aesthetics and Morality is a stimulating and insightful inquiry into precisely this set of questions. Elisabeth Schellekens explores the main ideas and debates at the intersection of aesthetics and moral philosophy. She invites readers to reflect on the nature of beauty, art and morality, and provides the philosophical knowledge to render such reflection more rigorous. This original, inspiring and entertaining book sheds valuable new light on a notably complex and challenging area of thought.