186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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Benjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years. This book brings together his most significant and influential work on aesthetics. Spanning a period of thirty years and covering topics in aesthetics from literature to painting, the collection traces the development of Tilghman's two principal themes; a rejection of philosophical theory as a way of resolving... Read more
Contents: Foreword; The literary work of art; Aesthetic descriptions and secondary senses; Danto and the ontology of literature; Understanding people and understanding art; Picture space and moral space; Reflections on aesthetic theory; Literature, philosophy and nonsense; Charles Le Brun, theory, philosophy and irony; Architecture, expression and the understanding of a culture; Perspective, painting and the look of the world; A conceptual dimension of art history; Language and painting, border wars and pipe dreams; Literature, human understanding and morality; Reflections on aesthetic judgment; Index of names; Index of subjects.
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Tilghman, Benjamin
