Aesthetic Disinterestedness: Art, Experience, and the Self

ISBN-13: 9780367361495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Thomas Hilgers

Opis

This book introduces and defends a new account of aesthetic disinterestedness. Elaborating upon the work of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Bullough, Hilgers claims that artworks typically address our senses as well as our imagination, and require us to adopt a disinterested attitude towards what they show or present.

O autorze

Thomas Hilgers is a research associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Germany. After completing his dissertation in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, he was a research fellow at the Free University Berlin, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and Columbia University. He has also taught seminars in philosophy and film studies at UPenn, the Free University Berlin, the Kunstakademie, the Humboldt University Berlin, and Potsdam University. His fields of research are aesthetics, philosophy of film, philosophy of technology, metaphysics, and the history of German philosophy since Kant.