Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
16 Αυγ 2023 · The exploration of the historical trajectory of the concept of aesthetics, the recurring themes, enduring ideas, and transformative movements that have propelled aesthetics into the present day...
1. The Concept of Taste. The concept of the aesthetic descends from the concept of taste. Why the concept of taste commanded so much philosophical attention during the 18th century is a complicated matter, but this much is clear: the eighteenth-century theory of taste emerged, in part, as a corrective to the rise of rationalism, particularly as applied to beauty, and to the rise of egoism ...
Aesthetic Theory and Practice offers fresh perspectives on canonical and emerging topics in aesthetics, and also brings attention to a number of culturally sensitive topics that are customarily silenced in introductions to philosophical aesthetics.
Our definition, then, might be this: aesthetics is a sub-branch of philosophy that examines questions of the pleasantness of our experiences concerning things in the world (where pleasantness is taken in a broad sense to include, for example, the intellectual pleasure of being challenged or confronted).
20 Ιουν 2020 · Philosophical aesthetics : an introduction. Publication date. 1992. Topics. Aesthetics. Publisher. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : B. Blackwell ; Milton Keynes, UK : Open University. Collection.
Photography and co-editor of Aesthetics in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series. Graham McFee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Brighton, England.
27 Ιαν 2005 · In this chapter I offer first an outline of the structure of philosophical aesthetics as a whole, and then a selective sketch of the development of Anglo-American aesthetics over the past fifty years, focusing on five central topics: the concept of the aesthetic, the definition of art, the ontology of art, representation in art, and expression ...
