Aesthetic dimensions of modern philosophy

Aesthetic dimensions of modern philosophy / Andrew Bowie.

"Much of contemporary philosophy, especially in the analytical tradition, regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. In Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy Andrew Bowie, in contrast, explores the idea that art and a...

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Main Author: Bowie, Andrew, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Aesthetics.
Philosophy, Modern.
Aesthetics
Philosophy, Modern
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1: Grounding the Subject
  • Changing the Subject
  • Montaigne and the Meanings of Scepticism
  • Descartes: Scepticism and the Quest for Certainty
  • The Sense of Value
  • 2: The Nature of the Subject
  • Making Sense of Nature
  • The Sense of Judgement
  • The Senses of Nature
  • Language, Art, and Nature
  • Aesthetics and the Aims of Philosophy
  • 3: The Aesthetic Demand
  • Epistemological and Aesthetic Absolutes
  • The Search for the Ground
  • Romantic Negation
  • Hegel: Negation and the End of Art
  • 4: The Art of Language and the Language of Art
  • The Nature of Language
  • The Subject and the Object of Language
  • The Art of Understanding
  • Literature
  • 5: The Value of the Aesthetic
  • Value Scepticism
  • Value and the 'Great Transformation'
  • Myth, Religion, and Art
  • Reification and Metaphysics
  • Art, Science, and Meanings
  • Language, Identity, and Value
  • 6: The World of Art
  • Value and Objectification
  • Art and Being
  • Art and Truth
  • The History of Art, and Art as Event
  • Art and Metaphysics
  • 7: The Dialectic of Modern Art: T. W. Adorno
  • Truth Content
  • Mimesis, Art, and Nature
  • Subject and Object
  • Form and Sense
  • Forms of Understanding
  • Art, Communication, and Society
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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