Process and Aesthetics: An Outline of Whiteheadian Aesthetics and Beyond - Softcover

Dadejik, Ondrej; Kaplicky, Martin; Sevcik, Milos; Zuska, Vlastimil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8024647265 ISBN 13: 9788024647265

Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic, 2021

Synopsis

Though philosopher Alfred North Whitehead did not dedicate any books or articles specifically to aesthetics, aesthetic motifs nonetheless permeate his entire body of work. Despite this, aestheticians have devoted little attention to Whitehead. In this book, four scholars of aesthetics provide another angle from which Whiteheadian aesthetics might be reconstructed. Paying special attention to the notion of aesthetic experience, the authors analyze abstraction versus concreteness, immediacy versus mediation, and aesthetic contextualism versus aesthetic isolationism. The concepts of creativity and rhythm are crucial to their interpretation of Whiteheadian aesthetics. Using these concepts, the book interprets the motif of the processes by which experience is harmonized, the sensation of the quality of the whole, and directedness towards novelty.

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About the Author

Ondrej Dadejik is assistant professor of aesthetics at Charles University and the University of Southern Bohemia. Martin Kaplicky is assistant professor of aesthetics at Charles University and the University of Southern Bohemia. He also teaches at DAMU, the Theatre Faculty of Prague's Academy of Performing Arts. Milos Sevcik is head of the aesthetics department at Charles University. Vlastimil Zuska is professor of phenomenology and aesthetics at Charles University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8024647265
• ISBN 13: 9788024647265
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172