Beyond Aesthetics
Philosophical Essays
- Author: Noël Carroll, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Date Published: April 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521786560
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Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic theories - those maintaining that authorial intention, art history, morality and emotional responses are irrelevant to the experience of art - Noël Carroll argues for a more pluralistic and commonsensical view in which all of these factors can play a legitimate role in our encounter with art works. Throughout, the book combines philosophical theorizing with illustrative examples including works of high culture and the avant-garde, as well as works of popular culture, jokes, horror novels, and suspense films.
Read more- Discusses a broad selection of topics central to philosophical aesthetics
- Offers especially clear prose style, accessible to the non-specialist, general reader
- Pays attention to works not only of high culture and the avante-garde, but also to works of popular culture
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- Date Published: April 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521786560
- length: 468 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.651kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword Peter Kirvy
Introduction
Part I. Beyond Aesthetics:
1. Art and interaction
2. Beauty and genealogy of art theory
3. Four concepts of aesthetic experience
Part II. Art, History, and Narrative:
4. Art, practice, and narrative
5. Identifying art
6. Historical narratives and the philosophy of art
7. On the narrative connection
8. Interpretation, history and narrative
Part III. Interpretation and Intention:
9. Art, intention, and conversation
10. Anglo-American aesthetics and contemporary criticism: intention and the hermeneutics of suspicion
11. The intention of fallacy: defending myself
12. Intention and interpretation: the debate between hypothetical and actual intentionalism
Part IV. Art, Emotion, and Morality:
13. Art, narrative, and emotion
14. Horror and humor
15. The paradox of suspense
16. Art, narrative, and moral understanding
17. Moderate moralism
18. Simulation, emotions, and morality
Part V. Alternative Topics:
19. On jokes
20. The paradox of junk fiction
21. Visual metaphor
22. On being moved by nature
23. Emotion, appreciation, and nature.
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