| A Relational Aesthetic Contributor(s): Ginsberg, Robert (Editor), McSwain Jr, Harold W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820421855 ISBN-13: 9780820421858 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $73.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Art |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| LCCN: 93022887 |
| Series: East German Studies |
| Physical Information: 307 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "A Relational Aesthetic" proposes a philosophy of aesthetics offering an alternative to -classical aesthetics- and the general course of aesthetics since Kant. Drawing on the insights of Harold H. Oliver's seminal contributions toward a relational metaphysic, the author submits that "immediate aesthetic experiencing," as contrasted with aesthetic derivatives (such as artist, artwork, aesthetic event, audience, epistemological objectives, and craft), provides a satisfactory metaphysical and ontological description of art. Major attention is given to Kant, Whitehead, Sherburne, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Dewey whose separate and collegial expositions are shown to lend themselves to a relational reading." |