Aesthetics and the theory of criticism
Subtitle: selected essays of Arnold Isenberg.
By: Edited by William Callaghan [and others] With an introd. by Mary Mothersill and a biographical sketch by William Callaghan.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Isenberg, Arnold; Aesthetics; Criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Aesthetics: Music and ideas. Formalism. Perception, meaning, and the subject matter of art. The technical factor in art. The aesthetic function of language. The problem of belief. On defining metaphor.; title: Criticism: Cordelia absent. A poem by Frost and some principles of criticism. Critical communication. "Pretentious" as an aesthetic predicate. Superlatives. Some problems of interpretation.; title: Ethics and moral psychology: Natural pride and natural shame. Deontology and the ethics of lying. Ethical and aesthetic criticism.; title: Appendices (p. [283]-316).; title: A. Analytical philosophy and the study of art.; title: B. Notebooks and letters.