Description
Book SynopsisThis edited collection sets forth a new understanding of aesthetic-moral judgment organized around three key concepts: pleasure, reflection, and accountability. The overarching theme is that art is not merely a representation or expression like any other, but that it promotes shared moral understanding and helps us engage in meaning-making. This volume offers an alternative to brain-centric and realist approaches to aesthetics. It features original essays from a number of leading philosophers of art, aesthetics, ethics, and perception, including Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Garrett Cullity, Cynthia A. Freeland, Ivan Gaskell, Paul Guyer, Jane Kneller, Keith Lehrer, Mohan Matthen, Jennifer A. McMahon, Bence Nanay, Nancy Sherman, and Robert Sinnerbrink.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: From Pleasures to Principles Jennifer A. McMahon
Part I: Aesthetic Elements: Pleasure, Preference, and Imagination
1. New Prospects for Aesthetic Hedonism Mohan Matthen
2. From Colour to Meaning in Contemporary Art Cynthia A. Freeland
3. Against Aesthetic Judgments Bence Nanay
4. Imagination Jennifer A. McMahon
Part II: Aesthetic Experience: Critique, Expression, and Reflection
5. Art, Exemplars and Consensus Keith Lehrer
6. Objectivity and Shared Experience: Art and Morality Garrett Cullity
7. Dancers and Soldiers Sharing the Dance Floor: Emotional Expression in Dance Nancy Sherman
8. Twofoldness, Threefoldness and Aesthetic Pluralism Paul Guyer
Part III: Aesthetic Judgment: Dissonance, Difference, and Diversity
9. Aesthetic Judgment and the Transcultural Apprehension of Material Things Ivan Gaskell
10. Cross-Cultural Aesthetics and Etiquette Elizabeth Burns Coleman
11. Emotional Engagement and Moral Evaluation: Exploring Cinematic Ethics Robert Sinnerbrink
12. Aesthetics and Communication Jane Kneller
