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The metaphysics of beauty
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ISBN: 1501711350 9781501711350 0801438209 9780801438202 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ithaca

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In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in itself. The notion of beauty is currently attracting increased interest, particularly in philosophical aesthetics and in discussions of our experiences and judgments about art. In The Metaphysics of Beauty, Zangwill argues that it is essential to beauty that it depends on the ordinary features of things. He uses this principle to defend the notion of the aesthetic, to call for a version of aesthetic formalism, and to reconsider the reality of beauty. The Metaphysics of Beauty brings beauty to the center of intellectual consciousness in a manner informed by contemporary metaphysics and engages with beauty as an enduring object of human thought and experience.

Beyond aesthetics : philosophical essays
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ISBN: 0521781345 0521786568 0511012578 1280429763 0511173717 0511302169 0511605978 0511152892 0511046022 1107120357 9780511012570 0511030770 9780511030772 9780511605970 9780521781343 9780521781343 9780521786560 9781107120358 9781280429767 9780511173714 9780511302169 9780511152894 9780511046025 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic theories - those maintaining that authorial intention, art history, morality and emotional responses are irrelevant to the experience of art - Noël Carroll argues for a more pluralistic and commonsensical view in which all of these factors can play a legitimate role in our encounter with art works. Throughout, the book combines philosophical theorizing with illustrative examples including works of high culture and the avant-garde, as well as works of popular culture, jokes, horror novels, and suspense films.

Art and representation : contributions to contemporary aesthetics
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ISBN: 0275968472 031300062X 9780313000621 9780275968472 978031300062X Year: 2001 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger,

But is it art? : an introduction to art theory
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ISBN: 1299441947 019159377X 0191504254 9780191593772 9781299441941 0192100556 9780192100559 9780192853677 0192853678 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book en

Kant's theory of taste : a reading of the Critique of aesthetic judgment
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ISBN: 0521791545 0521795346 9780521791540 9780521795340 9780511612671 0511069359 9780511069352 0511067224 9780511067228 1280418206 9781280418204 1107121566 9781107121560 0511173806 9780511173806 1139146777 9781139146777 0511060912 9780511060915 0511302207 9780511302206 0511612672 0791448991 9780791448991 Year: 2001 Volume: *20 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's views on aesthetics. The first part of the book analyses Kant's conception of reflective judgment and its connections with both empirical knowledge and judgments of taste. The second and third parts treat two questions that Allison insists must be kept distinct: the normativity of pure judgments of taste, and the moral and systematic significance of taste. The fourth part considers two important topics often neglected in the study of Kant's aesthetics: his conceptions of fine art, and the sublime.

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