Malcolm Budd

Aesthetic Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

Malcolm Budd presents a selection of his work in aesthetics. Some essays deal with the abstract heart of aesthetics: issues such as the nature and scope of the aesthetic, the validity of aesthetic judgements, realism and anti-realism, pleasure and value, and the aim of art. Others focus on specific art forms: music and pictorial representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199556175
• ISBN-10: 0199556172
• Artikelnr.: 26100202

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Budd taught philosophy at University College London for more than thirty years before taking early retirement from the Grote chair to concentrate on his writing. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and became President of the British Society of Aesthetics in 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Aesthetic Judgements, Aesthetic Principles and Aesthetic
Properties
* 2: Aesthetic Essence
* 3: The Acquaintance Principle
* 4: The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgements
* 5: The Pure Judgement of Taste as an Aesthetic Reflective Judgement
* 6: Understanding Music
* 7: The Characterization of Aesthetic Qualities by Essential Metaphors
and Quasi-Metaphors
* 8: Musical Movement and Aesthetic Metaphors
* 9: Aesthetic Realism and Emotional Qualities of Music
* 10: On Looking at a Picture
* 11: The Look of a Picture
* 12: Wollheim on Correspondence, Projective Properties and Expressive
Perception
* 13: Wittgenstein on Aesthetics
* Index