LEADER 05122oam 2200697I 450 001 9910450028003321 005 20210830165340.0 010 $a1-134-96737-3 010 $a1-280-53908-9 010 $a9786610539086 010 $a0-203-00433-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203004333 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005471 035 $a(EBL)179762 035 $a(OCoLC)830171187 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208796 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207211 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208796 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10244001 035 $a(PQKB)11781467 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC179762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL179762 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10017119 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53908 035 $a(OCoLC)70765669 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005471 100 $a20180331d1990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe nature of art /$fA.L. Cothey 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1990. 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 225 1 $aProblems of philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-86200-0 311 $a0-415-03357-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 190-193) and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Art is anomalous; 2. Forms of aesthetic scepticism: philistines and iconoclasts; 3. Historical note; 4. The central issues; 5. Aestheticism; I Hedonism and the Theory of Taste; 1. General objections; 2. Beauty as a secondary quality: Hutcheson, Reid, Burke; 3. Beauty as a primary quality: Santayana. Bell; 4. Hume's theory; II Theories that Assign a Direct Practical F'urpose to Art; 1. Nutritional and medicinal analogies; 2. General difficulties; 3. Art as substitute satisfaction: Freud; 4. Tolstoy's theory 327 $a5. Art as a pseudo-capacity: Plato6. Beauty and inspiration: Plato; 7. Metaphysical aestheticism: Plotinus; III Perfection and the Play of Cognition; 1. Aristotle's theory of pleasure; 2. Beauty and perfection: a dilemma; 3. Rationalist aesthetics: Leibniz, Baumgarten; 4. Kant's theory (I): the existence of a non-cognitiveaim of cognition; 5. Kant's theory (2): the sublime and the moralsignijicance of beauty; IV Art as the Experience of Metaphysical Truth; 1. The reception of Kant's theory: Schiller, Schelling; 2. Art and nature: Schelling 327 $a3. Art as the 'sensuous presentation of the Absolute': Hegel4. Hegel's iconoclasm; 5. Art as respite: Schopenhauer; 6. Schopenhauer on music; 7. Conclusion: the needfor a theory offorms of knowledge; V Art as Language; 1. Knowledge by acquaintance; 2. The phenomenological approach: Dufrenne; 3. Croce's theory of intuition and expression; 4. Presentational symbols: Langer; 5. Art and the general theory of symbols: Goodman; VI Art and Metaphor; 1. The relevance of metaphor; 2. Theories of metaphor; 3. Literalist and tropist prejudices; 4. Dead and faint metaphor; 5. Viewpoints and exponability 327 $a6. Art as metaphor7. Unanswered questions; VII Virtues and Indirect Pleasures; 1. A problem about pleasure and 'completeness'; 2. Cognitive virtues; 3. A pragmatic theory of beauty; 4. Art as recreation; 5. The 'institutional' theory of art; 6. Cognitive pleasure: Aristotle on happiness; VIII The Aim Behind Perception; 1. Cognition and the essentially metaphorical; 2. The intellect and the senses: Aristotle; 3. Further problems in understanding particulars; 4. The imagination as a pseudo-capacity; 5. Perception and kinaesthetic experience; 6. Productive skills and conceptual empathy 327 $aIX Aesthetic Satisfaction1. Peculiarities of aesthetic enjoyment; 2. Perceptual knowledge; 3. Aesthetic understanding (I): empathic enjoyment; 4. Aesthetic understanding (2): beauty and necessity; 5. Beauty and experiential knowledge; X Art and Artistic Abilities; 1. Questions about art; 2. Two theories of artistic abilities; 3. Creative imagination; 4. Inspiration and works of art; 5. Inspiration and artistic success; 6. Understanding art; 7. The value of art: aesthetic experience as a source of meaning; Bibliography; Index 330 $aAlthough various aesthetic themes have preoccupied many major philosophers, from Plato to Goodman, the central questions of the philosophy of art have remained ill-defined. This book gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient times to the present day, and goes on to propose a new theory of aesthetic satisfaction and artistic abilities. 410 0$aProblems of philosophy. 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aArt$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAesthetics. 615 0$aArt$xPhilosophy. 676 $a701/.17 700 $aCothey$b A. L$g(Antony L.),$f1951-$01043849 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450028003321 996 $aThe nature of art$92469098 997 $aUNINA