Aesthetics, Imagination and the Unity of Experience
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Absolute Miracle
Aesthetic Emotion
Aesthetic Idea
Aesthetic Rapture
Aesthetic Relevance
analytic philosophy
Animistic Imagination
art criticism theory
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Bell's aesthetic theory
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Cavafy's Poem
Cavafy’s Poem
Common Aesthetic Sense
continental thought
Disinterested Delight
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Good Life
imagination in ethical judgement
Kant's aesthetics
Kantian aesthetics
Magical Analogue
Metaphysical Hypothesis
moral philosophy
Natural Beauty
Non-aesthetic Properties
Objective Aesthetic Qualities
philosophy of education
Poetic Proposition
Poetic Sentence
Pure Aesthetic Emotion
Round Window
Synoptic Imagination
theory of imagination
unified approach
Vice Versa
Voluntary Imagination
War Time
Wright Brothers
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754604334
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first book to gather together R. K. Elliott's important essays on aesthetics. These essays put forward a number of common themes that together constitute a unified approach to aesthetics. A theory of imagination is developed and ideas concerning the practice of art criticism are explored before the relevance of aesthetics for ethics is discussed. Throughout his writing Elliott combines analytic rigour with sympathy for ideas in continental philosophy. He values subjectivity but his analytic stance prevents this from falling into mere personal opinion; he is also able to show how art and aesthetic theory is of complex relevance to broader areas of experience such as education, freedom, and moral action. In the course of his discussion Elliott offers an in-depth analysis of Kant's Critique of Judgement, Clive Bell's aesthetic theory, and the relevance of Wittgenstein for aesthetics. Study of Elliott's essays presented in this book powerfully illuminates the unifying role of imagination and the aesthetic in human experience.
Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
