Art and embodiment : from aesthetics to self-consciousness / Paul Crowther
1993, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430904
ISBN: 0198239963
Physical description; 210 p. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: An Ecological Theory of Art -- pt. 1. Varieties and Structures of Aesthetic Experience -- 1. The Aesthetic Domain: A Logical Geography -- 2. Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Art -- 3. Alienation and Disalienation in Abstract Art -- pt. 2. The Philosophical Significance of Art -- 4. Fundamental Ontology and Transcendent Beauty: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics -- 5. Heidegger and the Question of Aesthetics -- 6. Merleau-Ponty: Vision and Painting -- 7. Art, Architecture, and Self-Consciousness: An Exploration of Hegel's Aesthetics -- pt. 3. The Ecological Significance of Art -- 8. The Needs of Self-Consciousness: From Aesthetic Experience to Unalienated Artifice -- 9. Art and the Needs of Self-Consciousness -- 10. Defining Art: Questions of Creativity and Originality -- Appendix -- Conclusion -- Index. Subjects; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 Aesthetics. Art Philosophy. Aesthetics. Art Philosophy of. Arts Aesthetics. Art. Art and philosophy.
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