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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786107403321

Titolo

Art and identity : essays on the aesthetic creation of mind / / edited by Tone Roald and Johannes Lang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2013

ISBN

94-012-0904-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Collana

Consciousness, literature & the arts, , 1573-2193 ; ; 32

Altri autori (Persone)

RoaldTone

LangJohannes

Disciplina

701

Soggetti

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Identity (Psychology) in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Tone Roald and Johannes Lang -- Identity, Bodily Meaning, and Art / Mark Johnson -- Acts Not Tracts! Why a Complete Psychology of Art and Identity Must Be Neuro-cultural / Ciarán Benson -- I Am, Therefore I Think, Act, and Express both in Life and in Art / Gerald C. Cupchik -- Sense, Modality, and Aesthetic Experience / Simo Køppe -- Reading Proust: The Little Shock Effects of Art / Judy Gammelgaard -- Becoming Worthy of What Happens to Us: Art and Subjectivity in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze / Kasper Levin -- Art and Personal Integrity / Bjarne Sode Funch -- Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present: On Our New Relationship to Classics / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had aesthetic experiences know this intimately, and yet the study of art’s impact on the mind struggles to be recognized as a centrally important field within the discipline of psychology. The main thesis of Art and Identity is that aesthetic experience represents a prototype for meaningful experience, warranting intense philosophical and psychological investigation. Currently psychology remains too closed-off from the rich reflection of philosophical aesthetics, while philosophy continues to be sceptical of the psychological reduction of art to its potential for subjective



experience. At the same time, philosophical aesthetics cannot escape making certain assumptions about the psyche and benefits from entering into a dialogue with psychology. Art and Identity brings together philosophical and psychological perspectives on aesthetics in order to explore how art creates minds.