1st Edition
Aesthetics, Imagination and the Unity of Experience
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first book to gather together R. K. Elliott's important essays on aesthetics. These essays put forward a number of common themes that together constitute a unified approach to aesthetics. A theory of imagination is developed and ideas concerning the practice of art criticism are explored before the relevance of aesthetics for ethics is discussed. Throughout his writing Elliott combines... Read more
Contents: Preface; Critical introduction. Part I: The unity of Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgement; Imagination: 'a kind of magical faculty'; Imagination in the experience of art; Aesthetic theory and the experience of art. Part II: The critic and the lover of art; Poetry and truth; The aesthetic and the semantic; Clive Bell's aesthetic theory and critical practice; Aestheticism, imagination and schooling. Part III: Wittgenstein's speculative aesthetics in its ethical context; Socrates and Plato's cave. Bibliography of the works of R.K. Elliott; Index.
Biography
Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
