296 Pages
by
Routledge
293 Pages
by
Routledge
293 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study is a fresh and original attempt to liberate the theory of criticism from the limitations of connoisseurship, and the assumptions of aesthetics from the difficulties and paradoxes of aesthetic relativism. It presents a picture of what rationality in the assessment of the arts would be like if one were expected to justify one's decisions in and about the arts. Kadish focuses upon the... Read more
1: Introductory: The Gist of the Proposal; 2: The Doctrine of the Work of Art Itself; 3: Toward the Poem in Proper Relation; 4: Constructing Critical Objects: The Construction Argument; 5: The Relevance of the Created Object; 6: The Claims Question and the Dogma of Estheticism; 7: Consumer Claims and Artistically Relevant Claims; 8: Judgment and Artistic Merit; 9: The Ideal of Unicity, Judgment, and the Adjudicative Process; 10: How Artistically Relevant Controversy Is Possible: The Structure of Proper Occasions; 11: The Structure of the Evidence; 12: Reason in the Arts: A Concluding Portrait
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Mortimer R. Kadish
