Reason and Controversy in the Arts

ISBN-13: 9781138531482 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 293 str.

Mortimer R. Kadish

Opis

This study is a fresh and original attempt to liberate the theory of criticism from the limitations of connoisseurship, and the assumptions of aesthetics from the difficulties and paradoxes of aesthetic relativism

Spis treści

1: Introductory: The Gist of the Proposal; 2: The Doctrine of the Work of Art Itself; 3: Toward the Poem in Proper Relation; 4: Constructing Critical Objects: The Construction Argument; 5: The Relevance of the Created Object; 6: The Claims Question and the Dogma of Estheticism; 7: Consumer Claims and Artistically Relevant Claims; 8: Judgment and Artistic Merit; 9: The Ideal of Unicity, Judgment, and the Adjudicative Process; 10: How Artistically Relevant Controversy Is Possible: The Structure of Proper Occasions; 11: The Structure of the Evidence; 12: Reason in the Arts: A Concluding Portrait

O autorze

Mortimer R. Kadish