New waves in aesthetics / edited by Kathleen Stock and Katherine Thomson-Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stock, Kathleen.

Thomson-Jones, Katherine.

Series:

New waves in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Physical Description:

xix, 269 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

New Waves In Aesthetics is a collection of essays by leading young scholars on central issues in analytic aesthetics. Many of the topics taken up in the collection are familiar - including aesthetic judgement, aesthetic properties, the ontology of art, theories of art, metaphor, imagination, expressions, creativity and fiction. But the treatment of these topics is new, enriched by knowledge of the history of aesthetics, recent developments in the art world, and recent debates in other areas of philosophy and the humanities in general, as well as in cognitive science. Other topics in the collection may be less familiar, either because they draw our attention to oft-ignored aspects of art and aesthetic experience, such as the personification of art, or because they advocate revision of a widely accepted view - say, of the relation between the work of Kant and Arthur Danto. Overall, the diversity and rigour of the collection reflects the current liveliness, and confirms the bright future of analytic aesthetics.

Contents:

Introduction / Katherine Thomson-Jones and Kathleen Stock

The ontological diversity of visual artworks / Sherri Irvin

New waves in musical ontology / Andrew Kania

Metaphors and musical expressiveness / Saam Trivedi

Davidson, metaphor and error theory / Andrew McGonigal

Artifact expression / John Kulvicki

A metaphysics of creativity / Dustin Stokes

From defining art to defining the individual arts : the role of theory in the philosophies of arts / Aaron Meskin

Imagining fact and fiction / Stacie Friend

Three debates in meta-aesthetics / Elisabeth Schellekens

Aesthetic ideals / Rafaël De Clercq

Configuring the cognitive imagination / Jonathan M. Weinberg

Personifying art / Brian Soucek

Danto and Kant, together at last / Diarmuid Costello.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230220460

9780230220461

0230220479

9780230220478

OCLC:

225846766

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