Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art

ISBN-13: 9780415236027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 336 str.

Ruth Lorand

Opis

What constitutes beauty? And how do we identify it? Philosophical approaches to this question have swayed from the claim that there are principles of beauty out there waiting to be discovered, to the claim that there are simply no aesthetic principles and that beauty is an expression of disorder. This text rejects these approaches.

Recenzje

'Ruth Lorand's book on aesthtic order is a very welcome and useful study in the field of aesthetics. ... its questions are addressed in new and fresh ways ... a very clear and comprehensive thesis, and a considerable amount of intelligent reflection.' - Eugenio Benitez, Literature and Aesthetics

Spis treści

Introduction PART I Understanding order 1 What is order? 2 What is disorder? PART II Two types of order 3 Discursive order: the conventional concept 4 Beyond discursive order 5 Bergson: the unpredictable order 6 Aesthetic order: quantitative analysis 7 Aesthetic order: qualitative analysis (I) 8 Aesthetic order: qualitative analysis (II) 9 Relations and interactions PART III Aesthetic queries 10 Understanding beauty 11 Defining art

O autorze

Ruth Lorand is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel.