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This is Volume II of three in a collection on Aesthetics. Originally published in 1969, this volume of the Muirhead library of philosophy. After distinguishing, and relating, the functions of Criticism and Aesthetics in Part I, Part II develops the basic thesis of the book, which is that the central defining characteristic of the aesthetic is 'embodiment' rather than 'expression'. Part III tests... Read more
PART I INTRODUCTORY: ON TALKING ABOUT THE ARTS I Criticism and Aesthetics PART II THE NATURE OF THE AESTHETIC: FROM 'EXPRESSION' TO 'EMBODIMENT' II Expression, sensa and feelings III Susanne Langer, and beyond IV Expression, and the emergence of 'creative embodiment' PART III REPRESENTATIVE, ABSTRACT AND OTHER ARTS v Representative arts, expression and embodiment VI Abstract and other arts VII Music and human experience VIII Feeling, emotion and music IX Music: the transformation of feeling x Music and life-meanings: different types of music PART IV AESTHETIC MEANING, KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH XI Meaning, feeling, value, symbolism and the arts XII Art, knowledge and truth XIII Standards and truth, in art and science XIV Revelation and the Aesthetic PART V THE ARTS IN EDUCATION
Biography
Louis Arnaud Reid Professor-Emeritus of Philosophy of Education in the University of London
