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A Catholic Core Curriculum, Richard Liddy 2012 Seton Hall University

A Catholic Core Curriculum, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

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Martin Heidegger On Günther Anders And Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, And Transhumanism, Babette Babich 2012 Fordham University

Martin Heidegger On Günther Anders And Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, And Transhumanism, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

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Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship, Sheila Lintott 2012 Bucknell University

Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Contributions to Books

In the spirit of exploring fresh perspectives, I offer this investigation into the aesthetic aspects of personal relationships with a focus on friendship.1 Glossing the aesthetic aspects of friendship, as we too often do, impoverishes our understanding of the value and meaning of friendships, relationships which give shape and content to our lives, which animate our lives or, as Nancy Sherman (1993) puts it, relationships which structure the good life. The friendships we forge and those we forgo, the loves we cultivate and those we lose, these varying and variable relations broaden (or impoverish) our experiences, intensify (or diminish) our …


Hot Emotions: Dissolving The Paradox Of Fiction, Katherine Tullman 2012 City University of New York

Hot Emotions: Dissolving The Paradox Of Fiction, Katherine Tullman

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This essay critiques two of the main theories in the philosophy of emotions, the pure-cognitive theory and the neo-Jamesian theory, through the paradox of fiction. After explaining the different kinds of emotions we experience when engaging with fictions, I argue that a middle-ground, hybrid theory more adequately accounts for current scientific research and the paradox of fiction than either of the previous two. I propose a “HOT” theory of emotions (higher-order thought) specifically to explain complex emotions about fictions.


The Problem Of Cinematic Imagination, Rafe McGregor 2012 University of York

The Problem Of Cinematic Imagination, Rafe Mcgregor

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to identify the problem of cinematic imagination, and then to propose a satisfactory solution. In part one I analyze the respective claims of Dominic McIver Lopes and Roger Scruton, both of whom question the scope of imagination in film, when compared to other art forms, on the basis of its perceptual character. In order to address these concerns I develop a hybrid of Gregory Currie’s model of cinematic imagination and Kendall Walton’s theory of make-believe in section two. Section three offers a reply to Lopes and Scruton, examining the problem in terms of …


On 'Shock:' The Artistic Imagination Of Benjamin And Brecht, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra 2012 University of Cambridge, UK

On 'Shock:' The Artistic Imagination Of Benjamin And Brecht, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

“Shock” is perhaps the central concept of modernist aesthetics and Walter Benjamin its best known theorist. It has been well documented that Benjamin’s long-lasting friendship with Bertolt Brecht and the latter’s dramatic theory had a profound influence on his thinking about this notion. Brecht's techniques of interruption and juxtaposition in the practice of epic theater were in close relationship with Benjamin’s use of montage as a mechanism to “liberate” meaning. Despite Theodor Adorno’s and Gershom Scholem’s attempt to situate Benjamin’s thought in a different aesthetic tradition, Brecht’s understanding of Verfremdung (estrangement) and Benjamin’s idea of “shock” are often deemed identical. …


A Cognitive Theory Of The Aesthetic Experience, Gianluca Consoli 2012 University of Rome

A Cognitive Theory Of The Aesthetic Experience, Gianluca Consoli

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper aims at naturalizing the aesthetic experience on the basis of cognitive sciences. In traditional philosophical aesthetics, the aesthetic experience requires a specific attitude and a characteristic work of imagination. Today, cognitive sciences offer a rich set of empirically corroborated concepts useful in explaining these notions in naturalistic terms. This paper extends these concepts to explain how the aesthetic experience is integrated and how it affords knowledge.


From Environmental Aesthetics To Narratives Of Change, Nathalie Blanc 2012 French National Centre for Scientific Research

From Environmental Aesthetics To Narratives Of Change, Nathalie Blanc

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Environmental aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that originated in the English-speaking world and is developing in France. It aims to take a new look at how relationships with the environment are constructed. Often addressed from a landscaping, technical or scientific angle, such relationships have remained largely unaddressed from a cultural perspective, i.e., one that includes a series of practices and values that represent a human group. In this article, I will address environmental aesthetics and how they point up tensions between fixed and static visual representations of the environment in the future and representations that can accommodate ordinary encounters, …


Flesh As Communication -- Body Art And Body Theory, Falk Heinrich 2012 Aalborg University, Denmark

Flesh As Communication -- Body Art And Body Theory, Falk Heinrich

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

On the last pages of The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty investigates “the bond between flesh and idea, and the internal armature which [it] manifests and which it conceals.” Flesh and idea are intertwined in that the body reflects on itself in the act of perception and, one could add, action. A correlative bond lies in communication theory as the operational difference between ego and alter-ego. This article investigates the non-semiotic intertwinement of ‘flesh’ in art perception and theory based on communication theory in performance art (body art). The thesis is that ‘flesh’ in performance art is presented as absolute …


Judgment, Justice, And Art Criticism, Jolanta Nowak 2012 University of Melbourne

Judgment, Justice, And Art Criticism, Jolanta Nowak

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The purpose of this article is to expose a gap in the current academic discussion of visual art criticism: the lack of serious attention to the role of ethical judgment. Critics tend either to avoid discussing the judgment of art or they dismiss it as a contemporary impossibility. However, ethical criticism is nonetheless practiced, albeit only occasionally and in an under-theorized manner. This paper calls for a reconceptualization of ethical judgment in art criticism, a reconceptualization that brings art into explicit relation with ethics.


Artification And The Aesthetic Regime Of Art, Aleš Erjavec 2012 Ljubljana University and University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

Artification And The Aesthetic Regime Of Art, Aleš Erjavec

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The author discusses “artification” and attempts to ascertain whether some common features can be found between artification and Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics, especially his notion of the “aesthetic regime of art.” The author argues that Rancière’s project of “art become life” can be employed as a common denominator of both theoretical frameworks, that of artification and that of the aesthetic regime of art. Nonetheless, the art to which Rancière’s notion primarily applies is different from art in the traditional sense, which seems to form the empirical basis of the notion of artification.


When Is Artification?, Roberta Shapiro, Nathalie Heinich 2012 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

When Is Artification?, Roberta Shapiro, Nathalie Heinich

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

How do people do or make things that come to be seen as works of art? In other words, when is there artification? The answer to this question is simultaneously symbolic, material, and contextual. It has to do with meanings, objects, interaction, and institutions. We seek to define not what art is nor how it should be considered, but how and under what circumstances it comes about by way of methodical observation and inquiry in a variety of fields. Circus acrobats, break-dancers, fashion designers, chefs, graffiti artists, printers, photographers, and jazz musicians are some of the examples we explore. This …


"... And I'D Look At My Hands And Think Of Lady Macbeth ...", Yrjänä Levanto 2012 Aalto University

"... And I'D Look At My Hands And Think Of Lady Macbeth ...", Yrjänä Levanto

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

After resigning from the service of Sotheby's Auction House, Bruce Chatwin changed his views on art, the art world, and art history. He developed an approach that differed from established art-historical writing; he began to contextualize differently. He saw and understood the use of artistic means more widely than in traditional art-historical writing. From Chatwin's viewpoint, one possibility was to "smuggle" new material into the existing system. In this study, I take as my material Bruce Chatwin's enthusiasm and loyalty to Andre Malraux and his ideas about Le Musee Imaginaire. I also make use of Chatwin's interest in Heinrich Wolfflin's …


Artification For Well-Being: Institutional Living As A Special Case, Susann Vihma 2012 Aalto University

Artification For Well-Being: Institutional Living As A Special Case, Susann Vihma

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Millions of people live in institutional residences that differ significantly from their homes. This article looks closely into the quality of these habitations and points out some critical characteristics based on a research project called CoWell. One salient question circles around the concept of homeyness, which in many countries is the main objective to realize in institutional living. Some kind of artification is implemented and is seen as a means for achieving a homey atmosphere and of stimulating the inhabitants and the staff. However, very little research has been done on homeyness. Cleanliness, permanence, and randomness are often recognizable in …


Front Matter, 2012 Louisiana State University

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Aspects Of High Churchmanship In Eighteenth-Century England Charles Wheatly (1686-1742) And The Rational Illustration Of The Book Of Common Prayer, Richard Sharp 2012 Louisiana State University

Aspects Of High Churchmanship In Eighteenth-Century England Charles Wheatly (1686-1742) And The Rational Illustration Of The Book Of Common Prayer, Richard Sharp

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Savage Europeans And Gentlemanly Savages Capitalism And Blurred Identity In Robinson Crusoe, Susan Lydon 2012 Louisiana State University

Savage Europeans And Gentlemanly Savages Capitalism And Blurred Identity In Robinson Crusoe, Susan Lydon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Dilettante And Amateur Our Evolving Language, Beverly Jerold 2012 Louisiana State University

Dilettante And Amateur Our Evolving Language, Beverly Jerold

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


"The Splendour Of Our Golden Age" The Duchess Of Mazarin And Epicurean Voluptuousness In Late Stuart England, James E. Evans 2012 Louisiana State University

"The Splendour Of Our Golden Age" The Duchess Of Mazarin And Epicurean Voluptuousness In Late Stuart England, James E. Evans

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Catholic Enlightenment, Theodore E.D. Braun 2012 Louisiana State University

The Catholic Enlightenment, Theodore E.D. Braun

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


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