Art and embodiment : from aesthetics to self-consciousness / Paul Crowther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowther, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 212 pages)

Other Title:

From aesthetics to self-consciousness

From aesthetics to selfconsciousness

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003

Summary:

Arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generality and completeness, and the concreteness and contingency of humanity's basic relation to the world, Crowther proposes an ecological definition of art.

Contents:

Introduction: An Ecological Theory of Art

pt. 1. Varieties and Structures of Aesthetic Experience

1. The Aesthetic Domain: A Logical Geography

2. Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Art

3. Alienation and Disalienation in Abstract Art

pt. 2. The Philosophical Significance of Art

4. Fundamental Ontology and Transcendent Beauty: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

5. Heidegger and the Question of Aesthetics

6. Merleau-Ponty: Vision and Painting

7. Art, Architecture, and Self-Consciousness: An Exploration of Hegel's Aesthetics

pt. 3. The Ecological Significance of Art

8. The Needs of Self-Consciousness: From Aesthetic Experience to Unalienated Artifice

9. Art and the Needs of Self-Consciousness

10. Defining Art: Questions of Creativity and Originality

Appendix

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-169742-7

0-19-924497-9