Aaron Ridley

Singularities (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Aesthetics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetics: artistic creativity and aesthetic judgement. Ranging from Kant himself to contemporary debates, from song to conceptual art, from ethics to atheism, from function to failure, Aaron Ridley explores the ways in which the one-off character of creativity and judgement may defy our ordinary expectations of what an explanation should be like. Intended equally for specialists and students, this collection offers a distinctive approach to aesthetics that will be of interest to any reader concerned with philosophical reflection upon the arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192661005
• Artikelnr.: 72268695

Autorenporträt

Educated at the universities of York (BA) and Cambridge (PhD), Aaron Ridley has taught at UCNW Bangor, Ithaca College, NY, and, since 1994, the University of Southampton. His chief research interests are aesthetics, especially musical aesthetics, and the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART 1: CREATIVITY
1: R.G. Collingwood: a Philosophy of Art
2: Against Musical Ontology
3: Pieces of Music and Pinches of Salt
4: Acting for Aesthetic Reasons
5: Why Ethics and Aesthetics Are Practically the Same
6: Making Art, Making Craft
7: Kant's Aesthetic Ideas
PART 2: JUDGEMENT
8: On the Musically Possible
9: Song as a Whole
10: Bad Art
11: Critical Conversions
12: Persona Sometimes Grata: Appreciating Expressive Music
13: Religious Music for Godless Ears
14: Art Works: On Functional Beauty