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Surface and Depth : Dialectics of Criticism and Culture /
A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes their creation and perception? But exploring such underlying cultural conditions challenges the perception...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Logics of Criticism
- 1. On Analytic Aesthetics: From Empiricism to Metaphysics
- 2. Logics of Interpretation: The Persistence of Pluralism
- 3. Croce on Interpretation: Deconstruction and Pragmatism
- 4. Wittgenstein and Critical Reasoning
- Part II: Logics of Culture
- 5. Of the Scandal of Taste: Social Privilege as Nature in the Aesthetics of Hume and Kant
- 6. Convention: Variations on the Nature/Culture Theme
- 7. From Natural Roots to Cultural Radicalism: Pragmatist Aesthetics in Alain Locke and John Dewey
- 8. Eliot and Adorno on the Critique of Culture
- 9. Deep Theory and Surface Blindness: On the Aesthetic Visibility of Print
- Part III: Contemporary Reconstructions
- 10. Art in a Box: Danto
- 11. Pragmatism and Culture: Margolis and Rorty
- 12. Cultural Analysis and the Limits of Philosophy: The Case of Bourdieu
- 13. Art as Dramatization
- Notes
- Index