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Brings together essays on the philosophy of art in which a philosophical theory of aesthetic judgment is tested and developed through its application to particular examples. Each essay approaches, from its own field of study, what Roger Scruton argues to be the central problems of aesthetics -- what is aesthetic experience, and what is its importance for human conduct?
The book is divided into four parts. The first contains a resume of modern analytical aesthetics, which also serves as an introduction to subsequent chapters. It also includes an essay that reviews current theories of literary criticism. The second part is devoted to musical aesthetics and contains the theoretical core of the work. Here Scruton describes the contours of aesthetic understanding, and defends the view that the object of aesthetic experience is inherently significant, even when it has no "content" that can be described in propositional terms. He rebuts the view that music is representational, and in the third part goes on to propose a theory of representation whereby to refute the suggestion that photography is a representational art. This third section also contains a study of film. The final part comprises essays relating aesthetic judgment to the understanding of culture, humor, and design. It covers many subjects, including the prose works of Samuel Beckett and the architecture of Leninism. The essays in this book form parts of a single intellectual enterprise, which is to give analytical foundations to the criticism of literature, visual art, music, and culture.
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- PublisherMethuen young books
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0416361609
- ISBN 13 9780416361605
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> These essays were written over a period of seven years, and cover a variety of subjects in pure and applied aesthetics, reflecting both my own interests, and also a wider interest among Anglo-Saxon philosophers in the problems posed by the experience of art. For the most part they employ forms of argument and intellectual devices culled from the methods of analytical philosophy. It is now fairly evident that these methods are as applicable in aesthetics as in other areas of philosophical enquiry. If that were not so, then I believe that analytical philosophy would have failed to establish itself as a coherent intellectual discipline. For aesthetics is a central area of philosophy, as central as metaphysics, and as basic to our understanding of the human condition. But, like all works of analysis, the following essays do not presuppose the truth of that generalization. I hope only that they give some grounds for it. As explorations and reports, they must speak for themselves. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM273-VG-6978
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