Placing aesthetics : reflections on the philosophic tradition / Robert E. Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Robert E., 1934-

Series:

Series in Continental thought ; 26.

Series in Continental thought ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--History.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource( xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker''s philosophy. In Professor Robert Wood''s study, aesthetics is not peripheral but rather central to the speculative tradition and to human existence as such. In Dewey''s terms, aesthetics is "experience in its integrity."

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

I. Introduction: Fine Art and the Field of Experience

The Threefold Structure of the Field of Experience

The Manifold Forms of Art

A Preliminary Descriptive System of the Fine Arts

Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, and Dialogic Approaches

II. Plato

Art in the Purged City

The Center of Order

Mimesis

The Treatment of Art in the Republic

The Ladder of Ascent to Beauty Itself

Response

A Brief Excursus: Plato and Wright on Architecture

III. Aristotle

Meanings of the Term Art

Nature Illumined by Art: Plato and Aristotle

Art as Imitation

Division of the Performing Arts

The Definition of Tragedy

IV. Plotinus and the Latin Middle Ages

Plotinus

Aquinas among the Latin Medievals

V. Kant

Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Practical Reason

Critique of Judgment

The Beautiful

The Sublime

Art and Genius

Nature's Ultimate and Final Purpose

Epilogue: Hume's Notion of Aesthetic Community

VI. Hegel

Hegel, Enlightenment, and Christianity

The Starting Point of the Hegelian System

The Development of the System

The Nature of Art

The Basic Stages and Forms of Art

VII. Schopenhauer

A Synthesis of Kant, Plato, and the Indian Tradition

The World as Will and Representation

Aesthetic Experience and the Work of Art

The Forms of Art

VIII. Nietzsche

Nietzsche's Horizon

Nietzsche's Aesthetics

IX. Dewey

Overcoming the Platonic Splits

Overcoming the Cartesian Splits

Further Modifications of Traditional Notions

Dewey's Aesthetics

X. Heidegger

Situating Heidegger

"The Origin of the Work of Art"

What Is a Thing?.

Philosophy, Science, Art, and the Lifeworld

XI. Conclusion

The Sensory Field

The Cultural World

Transcendence

Appendix: On Sculptural Production

Descriptions

Reflections

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Names

Subject Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-406) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780821440452

0821440454

OCLC:

50174888