Aesthetics on the Edge
Subtitle: Where Philosophy Meets the Human Sciences
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198796657
Subjects: Aesthetics
Description: This book proposes a new methodology for aesthetics, where problems in philosophy are addressed by examining how aesthetic phenomena are understood in the human sciences. Lopes then puts the methodology to work, illuminating the perceptual and social-pragmatic capacities involved in responding to works of visual art, literature, and music.