Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9781107535497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str.

Patrick Colm Hogan

Opis

Integrating science and art, this accessible, but nuanced work explains how we experience beauty and why we enjoy it.

Recenzje

'In Beauty and Sublimity, Patrick C. Hogan makes yet another invaluable contribution to philosophical aesthetics and the philosophy of art in the naturalistic tradition.' Ryan P. Doran, British Journal of Aesthetics

Spis treści

Introduction. Why beauty?; 1. Literary aesthetics: beauty, the brain, and Mrs Dalloway; 2. The idiosyncrasy of beauty: aesthetic universals and the diversity of taste; 3. Unspoken beauty: problems and possibilities of absence; 4. Aesthetic response revisited: quandaries about beauty and sublimity; 5. My Othello problem: prestige status, evaluation, and aesthetic response; 6. What is aesthetic argument?; 7. Art and beauty; Afterword. A brief recapitulation, with a coda on anti-aesthetic art.