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1. Art and Ethics in a Material World

   Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy

   By Jennifer McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is...

   To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Aesthetics and Material Beauty

   Aesthetics Naturalized

   By Jennifer A. McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. The creative process does...

   Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge