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aesthetic
Aesthetic Embodiment
Aesthetic Meaning
Aesthetic Symbol
aesthetic theory
Archetypal Symbol
art and knowledge
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Chopin
Clive
Clive Bell
Cognitive Feeling
creative
CREATIVE EMBODIMENT
Dim
Ductless Glands
embodiment in art
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experience
Extra-musical Sounds
Follow
Hedonic Tone
Intervallic Tensions
Jungian Symbol
music
music and emotion
Musical Embodiment
Omnis Determinatio Est Negatio
philosophical analysis of artistic meaning
philosophy of art
Psycho Physical Organism
Psychophysical Organism
pure
Pure Music
qualities
representative
Self-contained Unity
Sir Herbert Read
symbolism in aesthetics
tertiary
Tertiary Qualities
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415295598
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is Volume II of three in a collection on Aesthetics. Originally published in 1969, this volume of the Muirhead library of philosophy. After distinguishing, and relating, the functions of Criticism and Aesthetics in Part I, Part II develops the basic thesis of the book, which is that the central defining characteristic of the aesthetic is 'embodiment' rather than 'expression'. Part III tests this out in examples from the different arts, 'representative' and 'abstract', with very special attention to music (as an 'abstract' art), in which the problem of art's apparently contradictory characters-of being both autonomous and yet expressive of life outside art-is seen in its most acute form. Part IV is a philosophical analysis of the main concepts so far involved-meaning, symbolism, knowledge, truth, standards-in art as distinct from other, discursive knowledge. It concludes with a discussion of the question whether art is in any sense a 'revelation'. Part V considers the bearing of the arguments of the book on aesthetic education.
Louis Arnaud Reid Professor-Emeritus of Philosophy of Education in the University of London
