Jennifer A McMahon

Aesthetics and Material Beauty

Aesthetics Naturalized

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415874250
• ISBN-10: 0415874254
• Artikelnr.: 26816473

Autorenporträt

Jennifer A. McMahon is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Formalism and the Problem of Beauty 2. Universality and
Subjectivity 3. Objectivity and Autonomy 4. Critical Aesthetic Realism 5.
Beauty and Truth 6. Natural Generativity and Systematicity 7. The Ubiquity
of Beauty 8. Ugliness 9. Conclusion: An Ontology of Art