A Philosophy of Mass Art

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-874237-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 661 g

We live in a world dominated by mass art. Movies, TV, pulp literature, comics, rock music -- both broadcast and recorded -- surround us everywhere in the industrialized world and beyond. However, despite the fact that for the majority mass art supplies the primary source of aesthetic experience, the area has been neglected entirely by analytic philosophers of art.

In A Philosophy of Mass Art, Noël Carroll, a leading figure in the field of aesthetic philosophy, attempts to address this lacuna. He shows why philosophers have previously resisted and/or misunderstood mass art and he develops frameworks for understanding the relation of mass art to the emotions, morality, and ideology; discussing the accounts of such theorists in the field as Collingwood, Adorno, Benjamin, McCluhan, and Fiske.

Mixing conceptual analysis with many vivid examples, the author proposes the first significant attempt at a philosophy of mass art in the analytical tradition, concluding there are strong grounds for approaching mass art in the same fashion as high art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll, Noel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Philosophical Resistance to Mass Art: The Majority Tradition

- 2: Philosophical Celebrations of Mass Art: The Minority Tradition

- 3: The Nature of Mass Art

- 4: Mass Art and the Emotions

- 5: Mass Art and Morality

- 6: Mass Art and Ideology

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Noel Carroll is Monroe C. Beardsley Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin.