Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind

ISBN-13: 9780190096342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 276 str.

Jonathan Gilmore

Recenzje

Jonathan Gilmore's new book, Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind, is a treat: it is bold, compelling, and carefully argued. It makes important contributions to a variety of different debates in and around the philosophy of art, including the status of imagined or quasi-emotions, the (so-called) paradox of tragedy, the debate over artistic functions, and the problem of moral and aesthetic interaction. It is beautifully written, filled with vivid and apt examples from the arts and thoughtful application of results from the sciences.

O autorze

Jonathan Gilmore is a philosopher of art and art critic. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College. Prior to arriving at CUNY, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Yale University, and a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. A 2013-2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, he has published widely on the emotions, the imagination, philosophy of literature, philosophy of art history, freedom of expression, and twentieth-century European philosophy. His art criticism has appeared in such venues as Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, Tema Celeste, Modern Painters, and several exhibition catalogues.