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Autore |
Levinson Jerrold |
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Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / / Jerrold Levinson |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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0-19-170998-0 |
0-19-152563-4 |
1-4356-2123-9 |
1-281-14889-X |
9786611148898 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 423 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aesthetics |
Art - Philosophy |
Arts |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music -- Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? -- Erotic art and pornographic pictures -- Two notions of interpretation -- Who's afraid of a paraphrase? -- Hypothetical intentionalism : statement, objections, and replies -- Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, anddifferences of sensibility -- What are aesthetic properties? -- Schopenhauer's aesthetics -- Hume's Standard of taste : the real problem -- The concept of humor -- Intrinsic value and the notion of a life. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Contemplating Art' is a compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The 24 essays range over issues |
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in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature. |
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