Singularities

Essays in Aesthetics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetics: artistic creativity and aesthetic judgement. Ranging from Kant himself to contemporary debates, from song to conceptual art, from ethics to atheism, from function to failure, Aaron Ridley explores the ways in which the one-off character of creativity and judgement may defy our ordinary expectations of what an explanation should be like. Intended equally for specialists and students, this collection offers a distinctive approach to aesthetics that will be of interest to any reader concerned with philosophical reflection upon the arts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-29
Mått:160 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt:556 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780192845979

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Konstteori inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Educated at the universities of York (BA) and Cambridge (PhD), Aaron Ridley has taught at UCNW Bangor, Ithaca College, NY, and, since 1994, the University of Southampton. His chief research interests are aesthetics, especially musical aesthetics, and the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Recensioner i media

Aaron Ridley's Singularities is an enjoyable collection of fourteen essays that deal with a wide variety of topics in the philosophy of art or rather, as Aaron Ridley prefers to say, "aesthetics."

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction PART 1: CREATIVITY 1: R.G. Collingwood: a Philosophy of Art 2: Against Musical Ontology 3: Pieces of Music and Pinches of Salt 4: Acting for Aesthetic Reasons 5: Why Ethics and Aesthetics Are Practically the Same 6: Making Art, Making Craft 7: Kant's Aesthetic Ideas PART 2: JUDGEMENT 8: On the Musically Possible 9: Song as a Whole 10: Bad Art 11: Critical Conversions 12: Persona Sometimes Grata: Appreciating Expressive Music 13: Religious Music for Godless Ears 14: Art Works: On Functional Beauty