This set reissues 6 books on aesthetics originally published between 1933 and 1991. The volumes provide a clear introduction to classic philosophical accounts of art and beauty, as well as exploring ...the significance of aesthetics in more recent developments in philosophy.
1. An Introduction to Aesthetics E. F. Carrritt 2. Aesthetics: An Introduction W. Charlton 3. A Critical History of Modern Aesthetics William Francis Hare 4. Science and Aesthetic Judgment: A Study in Taine's Critical Method Sholom J. Kahn 5. Key Concepts: A Guide to Aesthetics, Criticism and the Arts in Education Trevor Pateman 6. A Transformational Theory of Aesthetics Michael Stephan
Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field
The map, as it appears in Gilles Deleuze’s writings, is a concept guiding the exploration of new territories, no matter how abstract. With the advent of new media and digital technologies, ...contemporary artists have imagined a panoply of new spaces that put Deleuze’s concept to the test. Deleuze’s concept of the map bridges the gap between the analog and the digital, information and representation, virtual and actual, canvas and screen and is therefore best suited for the contemporary artistic landscape. Deleuze and the Map-Image explores cartography from philosophical and aesthetic perspectives and argues that the concept of the map is a critical touchstone for contemporary multidisciplinary art. This book is an overview of Deleuze’s cartographic thought read through the theories of Sloterdijk, Heidegger, and Virilio and the art criticism of Laura U. Marks, Carolyn L. Kane, and Alexander Galloway, shaping it into a critical tool through which to view the works of cutting edge artists such as Janice Kerbel and Hajra Waheed, who work with digital and analog art. After all, Deleuze did write that a map can be conceived as a work of art, and so herein art is critiqued through cartographic strategies.
This paper examined the capacity of Nigerian youths in demanding accountability from their leaders for good governance. The study employed a descriptive survey design guided by two research ...questions. A total population of 235 final year students of Peaceland College of Education, Enugu in the Southern East region of Nigeria was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a 23 items researcher developed questionnaire titled Youth Capacities for Accountability and Good Governance Questionnaire (YCAGGQ). It was structured in two clusters in-line with the two research questions that guided the study. The instrument was face validated by three experts in the Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach Alpha Method which yielded an overall reliability co-efficient of 0.89. Data for the study was delivered and collected personally by the researchers with the help of two research assistants. Mean and Standard deviation scores were used in answering the two research questions. The result of the study revealed that both male and female undergraduate students identified all the items as factors that triggered the youths for demanding accountability from their leaders as well as workable ways for ensuring accountability from their leaders for good governance. This is evident in their mean scores which were above the cut-off point of 2.5 at a four point rating scale. The study among others recommended that: the government through its agencies should organize workshops on accountability and good governance on a frequent basis for the political leaders while in office to keep on grooming their minds on the issue of accountability and good governance. Equally, it was recommended that while expecting the government to be accountable, Nigerian youths should as well serve as agents of peace and unity, they should engage their leaders in a peaceful dialogue when necessary instead of protest as no meaningful development can take place in an environment dominated by chaos and violence.
This essay has two aims. The first is to offer an explanation concerning the problem of form in Umberto Eco’s philosophical research, showing that he deals with it while admitting that form can be a ...temporary element connected to a system of relationships which may be subject to variability. Namely, his reflection is open to the issue of structure. The second aim is to identify some principles that, according to this theoretical approach, may be considered a basis for a positive philosophy of the arts whose adoption might also lead to the understanding of their most recent evolutions. Focusing above all on the work Eco carried out in the years preceding the elaboration of his semiotic theory, I will pursue the following two objectives. After introducing some aspects of Eco’s philosophical methodology, I will focus on the theme of form, considering it in meta-operative terms in light of Luigi Pareyson’s ‘theory of formativity’ and in relation to the issue of structure. In the final part of the essay, I will then show how this theoretical approach provides significant resources for a positive philosophy that can successfully address the evolution of the arts.
German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel problematized the term “aesthetics” in his writings on art. This article attempts to capture the tension between Hegel's theory of art and philosophy of art and its ...impact on the subsequent theorization of art in the twentieth century as consumer or emancipatory. Music, poetry and plastic arts seem to resonate differently with philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and Adorno. Plato considered music soothing to the soul. In Aristotle, one could trace the oblique beginnings of the tension between a theory of art and a philosophy of art as he questioned the role of art in philosophy. While Kant's approach is more formal and deals with concepts such as beauty, sublime, genius, and the status of aesthetic objects, Hegel grapples with the rational and emotional aspects of works of art which determine whether art is free or under the thralldom of nature. Both Kant and Hegel distinguished artistic from natural beauty. Critical theorists such as Adorno were also influenced by Hegel. Adorno's analysis of concepts such as mimesis forms an important part of his critique of culture industry. Adorno was also emphatic that classical art could only exist as a product of an epoch. Yet in its dialectical form, art serves as a critique of ideology. Progressively, from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, what began as a crevice between a philosophy of art and a theory of art became a chasm. Thus, begins a contentious relationship between art as a pursuit in itself and art for consumption, that is, art as an integral aspect of consumer culture. The new phenomenon of AI art also poses interesting questions about the paradigmatic shift in dynamics between human element and technology. This article would also attempt to trace how art continues to defy reification, while in the process being consumed constantly, recreating and reinventing itself.
Norms of Fiction-Making GARCIA-CARPINTERO, Manuel
The British journal of aesthetics,
07/2013, Letnik:
53, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
I provide a variation on ideas presented by Walton and Currie, elaborating the view that fictive utterances are characterized by a specific form of illocutionary force in the family of directives--a ...proposal or invitation to imagine. I make some points on the relation between the proposal and the current debates on intentionalist and conventionalist views, and I discuss interesting recent objections made by Stacie Friend to the related, but crucially different, Gricean view of such force advanced by Currie and others. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
While Hegel’s influence on Arthur Danto has been examined in relation to specific parts of his thought, an overall analysis of said influence is still wanting. In this article, I analyze the presence ...of Hegelian influence in Danto’s complete thought from three perspectives: (1) Danto’s acceptance of Hegelian assumptions when it comes to the conception of history, narrative realism and historical progress, which allows him to combine timeless essentialism with historicism, (2) the cognitive aspect of art and the conception of art as an embodied symbol, as well as the historical quality of said embodiment, and (3) the assumption that art’s trajectory coincides with the Hegelian prophecy that art will give way to philosophy, on which Danto’s “end of art” thesis is based. This examination not only illuminates the interrelation between the different parts of Dantian philosophy, but also reveals its systematic character.
"Is it appropriate to honour and admire people who have created great works of art, made important intellectual contributions, performed great sporting feats or shaped the history of a nation if ...those people have also acted immorally? This book provides a philosophical investigation of this important and timely question. The authors draw on the latest research from ethics, value theory, philosophy of emotion, social philosophy and social psychology to develop and substantiate arguments that have been made in the public debates about this issue. They offer a detailed analysis of the nature and ethics of honour and admiration, and present reasons both in favor and against honouring and admiring the immoral. They also take on the important matter of whether we can separate the achievements of public figures from their immoral behavior. Ultimately, the authors reject a ""one-size-fits-all"" approach and argue that we must weigh up the reasons for and against honouring and admiring in each particular case. Honouring and Admiring the Immoral is written in an accessible style that shows how philosophy can engage with public debates about important ethical issues. It will be of interest to scholars and students working in moral philosophy, philosophy of emotion, and social philosophy."
Since antiquity, art has been a universal way of concrete-sensual expression of non-verbalized spiritual experience, primarily aesthetic, one of the main, essential, along with religion, components ...of сulture, as a uniquely creative and productive spiritual and practical human activity. In this article, the authors demonstrate its influence and power on the life and attitude of a person. In the process of analyzing the novel The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, the authors show that art helps people to discover more of themselves, to realize themselves, to go into their inner world – the world of their ideas and dreams. It helps to break away from reality as it is and get into a completely different, opposite world. Tartt’s novel demonstrates that by being associated with art, people can taste immortality. The article aims to demonstrate the undeniable power of art based on the analysis of the novel, to show that art has unlimited value because it is not just a decoration or addition to life, but a part of existence, the sense of life. On the basis of a detailed examination of the novel, the authors make conclusions that the role of art is invaluable in human life.
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