Meaning in the Arts

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-60658-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 405 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reid, Louis Arnaud

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I INTRODUCTORY: ON TALKING ABOUT THE ARTS I Criticism and Aesthetics PART II THE NATURE OF THE AESTHETIC: FROM 'EXPRESSION' TO 'EMBODIMENT' II Expression, sensa and feelings III Susanne Langer, and beyond IV Expression, and the emergence of 'creative embodiment' PART III REPRESENTATIVE, ABSTRACT AND OTHER ARTS v Representative arts, expression and embodiment VI Abstract and other arts VII Music and human experience VIII Feeling, emotion and music IX Music: the transformation of feeling x Music and life-meanings: different types of music PART IV AESTHETIC MEANING, KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH XI Meaning, feeling, value, symbolism and the arts XII Art, knowledge and truth XIII Standards and truth, in art and science XIV Revelation and the Aesthetic PART V THE ARTS IN EDUCATION

Über Autor(innen)

Louis Arnaud Reid Professor-Emeritus of Philosophy of Education in the University of London