Re-thinking Aesthetics

Rogue Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
Cover of the book Re-thinking Aesthetics by Arnold Berleant, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Arnold Berleant ISBN: 9781351903707
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Arnold Berleant
ISBN: 9781351903707
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

The essays, collected by Berleant in this volume all express the impulse to reject the received wisdom of modern aesthetics: that art demands a mode of experience sharply different from others and unique to the aesthetic situation, and that the identity of the aesthetic lies in keeping it distinct from other kinds of human experience, such as the moral, the practical, and the social. Berleant shows, on the contrary, that the value, the insight, the force of art and the aesthetic are all enhanced and enlarged by recognizing their social and human role, and that this recognition contributes both to the significance of art and to its humanizing influence on what we like to call civilization.

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The essays, collected by Berleant in this volume all express the impulse to reject the received wisdom of modern aesthetics: that art demands a mode of experience sharply different from others and unique to the aesthetic situation, and that the identity of the aesthetic lies in keeping it distinct from other kinds of human experience, such as the moral, the practical, and the social. Berleant shows, on the contrary, that the value, the insight, the force of art and the aesthetic are all enhanced and enlarged by recognizing their social and human role, and that this recognition contributes both to the significance of art and to its humanizing influence on what we like to call civilization.

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