Wittgenstein On Aesthetic Understanding

Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319409108

Get Book

Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding by Garry L. Hagberg Pdf

This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for aesthetic understanding. Focusing on the aesthetic elements of Wittgenstein’s philosophical work, the authors explore connections to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking and the illuminating power of Wittgenstein’s philosophy when considered in connection with the interpretation of specific works of literature, music, and the arts. Taken together, the chapters presented here show what aesthetic understanding consists of and the ways we achieve it, how it might be articulated, and why it is important. At a time of strong renewal of interest in Wittgenstein’s contributions to the philosophy of mind and language, this book offers insight into the connections between philosophical-psychological and linguistic issues and the understanding of the arts.

Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319974668

Get Book

Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding by Garry L. Hagberg Pdf

This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell’s lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell’s philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his wide-ranging writings on literature, music, film, opera, autobiography, Wittgenstein, and Austin to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking. Most centrally, the writings brought together here from an international team of senior, mid-career, and emerging scholars, explore the illuminating power of Cavell’s work for our deeper and richer comprehension of the intricate relations between aesthetic and ethical understanding. The chapters show what aesthetic understanding consists of, how such understanding might be articulated in the tradition of Cavell following Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and why this mode of human understanding is particularly important. At a time of quickening interest in Cavell and the tradition of which he is a central part and present-day leading exponent, this book offers insight into the deepest contributions of a major American philosopher and the profound role that aesthetic experience can play in the humane understanding of persons, society, and culture.

Author : Hanne Appelqvist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108944298

Get Book

Wittgenstein and Aesthetics by Hanne Appelqvist Pdf

Author : Peter B. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351872508

Get Book

Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy by Peter B. Lewis Pdf

Although universally recognised as one of the greatest of modern philosophers, Wittgenstein's work in aesthetics has been unjustly neglected. This is the first book exclusively devoted to Wittgenstein's aesthetics, exploring the themes developed by Wittgenstein in his own writing on aesthetics as well as the implications of Wittgenstein's wider philosophical views for understanding central issues in aesthetics. Drawing together original contributions from leading international scholars, this book will be an important addition to studies of Wittgenstein's thought, but its discussion of issues in literature, music and performing art, and criticism will also be of interest to many students of literary and cultural studies. Exploring three key themes - the capacity of the arts to illuminate our lives; the nature of the particular responses involved in understanding and appreciating works of art; the role of theory and principle in artistic and critical practice - the contributors address issues raised by contemporary philosophers of art, and seek to make connections between Wittgenstein's work and that of other significant philosophies of art in the Western tradition. Displaying the best practice of modern philosophical writing - clarity, cogency, respect for but not blind obedience to common sense, argument illustrated with detailed examples, rejection of speculation and pretension - this book demonstrates how philosophy can make a valuable contribution to understanding the arts.

Author : Alessandro Arbo,Michel LeDu,Sabine Plaud
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110330618

Get Book

Wittgenstein and Aesthetics by Alessandro Arbo,Michel LeDu,Sabine Plaud Pdf

Wittgenstein has written a great number of remarks relevant to aesthetical issues: he has questioned the relation between aesthetics and psychology as well as the status of our norms of judgment; he has drawn philosophers’ attention to such topics as aspect-seeing and aspect-dawning, and has brought insights into the nature of our aesthetic reactions. The examination of this wide range of topics is far from being completed, and the purpose of this book is to contribute to such completion. It gathers both papers discussing some of Wittgenstein’s most provocative and intriguing statements on aesthetics, and papers bringing out their implications for art critic and art history, as well as their significance to epistemology and to the study of human mind.

Author : B.R. Tilghman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349211746

Get Book

Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics by B.R. Tilghman Pdf

The author's purpose in this volume is to present the relevance of the ideas of Wittgenstein to those interested in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He focuses on both the earlier work centred around the "Tractatus" and the later work of the "Philosophical Investigations".

Author : Stefan Majetschak,Anja Weiberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110540413

Get Book

Aesthetics Today by Stefan Majetschak,Anja Weiberg Pdf

Aesthetics is no longer merely the philosophy of perception and the arts. Nelson Goodman, Arthur Danto and others have contributed to develop aesthetics from a field at the margins of philosophy to one permeating substantial areas of theoretical and practical philosophy. New approaches like environmental and ecological aesthetics widened the understanding of the aesthetics of nature. The contributions in this volume address the most important issues in contemporary aesthetics, many of them from a Wittgensteinian perspective. The 39th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, organized by the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, was held at Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, from August 7th to 13th 2016 and aimed at taking an inventory of important tendencies and positions in contemporary aesthetics. The volume includes a selection of the invited papers.

Author : Sonia Sedivy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474255769

Get Book

Beauty and the End of Art by Sonia Sedivy Pdf

Beauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink art, beauty and their relationship. By arguing that Wittgenstein's later work and contemporary theory of perception offer just what we need for a unified approach to art and beauty, Sonia Sedivy provides new answers to these contemporary challenges. These new accounts also provide support for the Wittgensteinian realism and theory of perception that make them possible. Wittgenstein's subtle form of realism explains artworks in terms of norm governed practices that have their own varied constitutive norms and values. Wittgensteinian realism also suggests that diverse beauties become available and compelling in different cultural eras and bring a shared 'higher-order' value into view. With this framework in place, Sedivy argues that perception is a form of engagement with the world that draws on our conceptual capacities. This approach explains how perceptual experience and the perceptible presence of the world are of value, helping to account for the diversity of beauties that are available in different historical contexts and why the many faces of beauty allow us to experience the value of the world's perceptible presence. Carefully examining contemporary debates about art, aesthetics and perception, Beauty and the End of Art presents an original approach. Insights from such diverse thinkers as Immanuel Kant, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Arthur Danto, Alexander Nehamas, Elaine Scarry and Dave Hickey are woven together to reveal how they make good sense if we bring contemporary theory of perception and Wittgensteinian realism into the conversation.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520251816

Get Book

Wittgenstein by Ludwig Wittgenstein Pdf

In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been compiled from notes taken down at the time by three of the students: Rush Rhees, Yorick Smythies, and James Taylor. They have been supplemented by notes of conversations on Freud (to whom reference was made in the course on aesthetics) between Wittgenstein and Rush Rhees, and by notes of some lectures on religious belief. As very little is known of Wittgenstein's views on these subjects from his published works, these notes should be of considerable interest to students of contemporary philosophy. Further, their fresh and informal style should recommend Wittgenstein to those who find his Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations a little formidable.

Author : G. L. Hagberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501725432

Get Book

Art as Language by G. L. Hagberg Pdf

"[Art as Language] is in itself extremely valuable as an example of the still largely unappreciated relevance of Wittgenstein's work to traditional philosophical issues.... This book, as a more or less encyclopedic critique of aesthetic theories from a Wittgensteinian perspective, will be enlightening to aesthetic theorists who want to know, not what Wittgenstein said about art, but what the relevance of his work is to their use of language as a point of reference for interpreting art."—Choice"In a series of acute arguments, Hagberg dismantles the region of grand aesthetic theory that defines art in the terms philosophy has traditionally used to define language.... Written with excellence in argumentation, judiciousness, and a capacious knowledge of Wittgenstein."—Daniel Herwitz, Common Knowledge"A clear and intelligent book. Hagberg's strategy is to show the consequences of holding a Wittgensteinian view of language and mind for aesthetic theories which are either based on, or analogous to, other non-Wittgensteinian positions about language and mind. This is an important project."—Stanley Bates, Middlebury College

Author : Richard Allen,Malcolm Turvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135199517

Get Book

Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts by Richard Allen,Malcolm Turvey Pdf

This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.

Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521518307

Get Book

The British Aesthetic Tradition by Timothy M. Costelloe Pdf

Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.

Author : Onno Zijlstra
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039108425

Get Book

Language, Image and Silence by Onno Zijlstra Pdf

This study examines the relation of image and language as well as the relation of ethics and aesthetics through a discussion of the positions of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. In the Tractatus Wittgenstein pursues the idea that the image can show what language cannot express and defends an aesthetic unity of ethics and aesthetics. Is he right? Is there not much to be said in favour of the opposite position, represented by Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author Judge William (in Either/Or)? William criticizes the image and argues in favour of language and of an ethical unity of aesthetics and ethics. William shows that the word has a decisive surplus when compared to the image. However, this position has its shortcomings too: language is not the only place of authentic communication. Looking for an alternative to 'logoclasm' (the early Wittgenstein) and 'iconoclasm' (William), Zijlstra explores Wittgenstein's later work and Kierkegaard's oeuvre as a whole and presents a new way of thinking about the relation of ethics and aesthetics.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118887134

Get Book

Lecture on Ethics by Ludwig Wittgenstein Pdf

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft andmakes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’soeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts ofWittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lectureand new transcriptions of all drafts Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendationsthus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgensteinin his 1929 lecture Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material andon its meaning, content, and importance

Author : Alessandro Arbo,Michel Le Du,Sabine Plaud
Publisher : Ontos Verlag
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3868381678

Get Book

Wittgenstein and Aesthetics by Alessandro Arbo,Michel Le Du,Sabine Plaud Pdf

Wittgenstein has written a great number of remarks relevant to aesthetical issues: he has questioned the relation between aesthetics and psychology as well as the status of our norms of judgement; he has drawn philosophers attention to such topics as aspect-seeing and aspect-dawning, and has brought insights into the nature of our aesthetic reactions. The examination of this wide range of topics is far from being completed, and the purpose of this book is to contribute to such completion. It gathers both papers discussing some of Wittgensteins most provocative and intriguing statements on aesthetics, and papers bringing out their implications for art critic and art history, as well as their significance to epistemology and to the study of human mind.