1st Edition
The Contemplative Activity Eight Lectures on Aesthetics
By Pepita Haezrahi
Copyright 1954
142 Pages
by
Routledge
141 Pages
by
Routledge
141 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1954, The Contemplative Activity analyses our knowledge of aesthetic experience, making the basic assumption that the existence of such experience is a hard core of fact which can only be described. Haezrahi’s approach to the problem of aesthetic judgment is analytical, concerned with clarifying its preconditions, determining its categories and tracing its implications. Her... Read more
1. The Subject-matter of Aesthetics: a methodological question 2. The Nature of Aesthetic Experience 3. Various Interpretations of the Content of the Aesthetic Experience 4. The Question of Taste 5. What is a Work of Art and How is it Judged? 6. Content and Form 7. The Perfect Aesthetic Response 8. Some Moral Reflections on Aesthetic Matters
Biography
Pepita Haezrahi
