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Crowther, Paul,

Art and embodiment : from aesthetics to self-consciousness / Paul Crowther. - 210 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: An Ecological Theory of Art -- Varieties and Structures of Aesthetic Experience -- The Aesthetic Domain: A Logical Geography -- Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Art -- Alienation and Disalienation in Abstract Art -- The Philosophical Significance of Art -- Fundamental Ontology and Transcendent Beauty: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics -- Heidegger and the Question of Aesthetics -- Merleau-Ponty: Vision and Painting -- Art, Architecture, and Self-Consciousness: An Exploration of Hegel's Aesthetics -- The Ecological Significance of Art -- The Needs of Self-Consciousness: From Aesthetic Experience to Unalienated Artifice -- Art and the Needs of Self-Consciousness -- Defining Art: Questions of Creativity and Originality -- Appendix -- Conclusion -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. Pt. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. 3. 8. 9. 10.

ISBN: 0198239963 9780198239963

LCCN: 92044433

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art--Philosophy.
Aesthetics

LC Class. No.: N71. / C76 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 701