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American aesthetics : theory and practice /
"Although there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in American philosophy and cultural thought.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction
- 1. Toward an American Aesthetics
- Aesthetics-A Definition
- The American Background
- Classic American Philosophers
- The Kantian Framework and First Domain of Aesthetic Judgment
- The Second Domain of Aesthetic Judgment
- The Third Domain of Aesthetic Judgment
- The Felt Aspect of Aesthetic Judgment
- Characteristics of American Aesthetics
- New Criticism as Overly Constrained
- High-Art Analysis
- Postmodernism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- II. Philosophical Contributions to American Aesthetics from the Past
- 2 The Primacy of Aesthetic Judgments: Emerson's Deontological-Transcendentalist Account of Tragedy
- Introduction
- Emerson's Tragic Sense
- Terror and Tragedy in the Twenty-first Century
- Tragedy after Emerson?
- Notes
- 3 Peirce and Edwards on the Argument from Beauty
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Notes
- 4 A Semeiotic Account of Paintings as Pure Icons that Communicate Beautiful Feelings
- Paintings as Pure Icons Interpretable Via Emotional Interpretants
- The Process of Painting and the Endowment of Paintings with Beautiful Feelings
- Beautiful Paintings and the Norms that Ground Aesthetic Inquiry
- Notes
- 5 The Pragmatist Aesthetics of William James
- II
- III
- IV
- Notes
- 6 Between Nature and Art: Some Analytical Exemplifications of Dewey's Aesthetics
- Nature as Matrix and Medium
- The Scroll and the Smile: Experience Has No Edges
- Paradigms of Painting: On Representation, Expression, and Abstraction
- Shaping Nature: Qualities of Space-Time in Art and Life
- A Final Word Connecting Us to the Beginning
- Notes
- III. American Aesthetics: Contemporary Theoretical Contributions
- 7 Axiological Landscape Theory: Uniting Aesthetics, Ethics, and Inquiry
- Introduction
- Summary of the Hypothesis: Basic Answers to Basic Questions
- Background: Fitness Landscapes, Axiological Pluralism, Determinate Histories, Appraisal Dimensions
- Key Concepts: Value, Possibility, Virtuality, Potential, Landscape, Affordance, Engagement, Determination, Realization, Foreclos
- Applications of Axiological Landscape Theory
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 8 Experience and Signs: Toward a Pragmatist Literary Criticism
- Aesthetics, Quality, Possibility
- Literature, Sensation, Relations
- Criticism, Theory, Philosophy
- Notes
- 9 Music, Time, and the Egress of Possibility
- Part I: Possibility in Time and Music, and Being toward Death
- Part II: Being toward Life as the Art of Being toward Death
- Part III: The Hiatus as the Ground of Person
- Notes
- 10 Harmony, Existence, and the Aesthetic
- Harmony
- Goodness in Harmony
- Beauty and Existence in Harmony
- The Situation of Appreciating Beauty
- Beauty in Art
- Conclusion
- Notes