Nelson Goodman and the case for a kalological aesthetics / Nikolaos Gkogkas ; foreword by T.J. Diffey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gkogkas, Nikolaos, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goodman, Nelson--Aesthetics.

Goodman, Nelson.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 163 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Epistemology delivers truths, metaphysics offers realities. In this book, aesthetics responds philosophically to the question about what one is to make of such truths and realities. How to live with them, or how to weave them together in the fabric of the self. In this sense, any aesthetics about art, beauty, and the like is translatable into a 'kalology' about degrees of meaning and layers of identity. The starting point for the book is Nelson Goodman's theory of symbols. A theory with modest aspirations that can only serve as an initial step, but a step in the right direction.

Contents:

1 Questions in Aesthetics 1

1.1 Kalological aesthetics 1

1.2 Goodman's symbology 4

1.2.1 Languages 6

1.2.2 Systems 7

1.2.4 An aesthetic theory of symbols 13

1.3 Meanings 17

1.4 Aesthetic and non-aesthetic, I: exemplification 21

1.5 Notationality 28

1.6 Authentic art, autographic art 32

1.6.1 Perceiving history 34

1.6.2 The redundant allographic 36

1.7 Pictures are imitated 40

1.7.1 The inadequacy of fidelity 43

1.7.2 The inadequacy of syntax 47

1.7.3 A different likeness 53

1.8 Sounds are traced 55

1.9 Texts are performed 61

1.10 Aesthetic and non-aesthetic, II: the symptom(s) of the aesthetic 68

1.11 Time, style and identity 75

1.11.1 Practice 78

1.11.2 Style as history 81

1.11.3 Identity in multiplicity 83

1.12 Aesthetic and non-aesthetic, III: a matter of understanding 85

1.12.1 Pleasure and utility 88

2 Aesthetics and Understanding 91

2.1 Logic as reference 91

2.2 The 'grue' colours of platonism 92

2.3 Pragmatic but irreal constructions 100

2.4 Making worlds 105

2.5 Rightness is larger than truth 110

3 Aesthetics and Kalology 114

3.1 The way to bare being 114

3.2 Kalology as a metaphysical aesthetics of presence 118

3.3 A grand theory? 123

3.4 Answers and questions 125

3.4.2 Tradition and practice 134

Appendix 1 Nelson Goodman Works List 139

Appendix 2 Nelson Goodman Reprints List 142.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-160) and index.

ISBN:

023057355X

9780230573550

0230573568

9780230573567

OCLC:

225820110

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