Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and other Essays.

Benjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years. This book brings together his most significant and influential work on aesthetics. Spanning a period of thirty years and covering topics in aesthetics from literature to painting, this collection traces the devel...

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Main Author: Tilghman, Benjamin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2007.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780754682684
0754682684
1281098027
9781281098023
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 The Literary Work of Art; 2 Aesthetic Descriptions and Secondary Senses; 3 Danto and the Ontology of Literature; 4 Understanding People and Understanding Art; 5 Picture Space and Moral Space; 6 Reflections on Aesthetic Theory; 7 Literature, Philosophy and Nonsense; 8 Charles Le Brun, Theory, Philosophy and Irony; 9 Architecture, Expression and the Understanding of a Culture; 10 Perspective, Painting and the Look of the World; 11 A Conceptual Dimension of Art History; 12 Language and Painting, Border Wars and Pipe Dreams.
  • 13 Literature, Human Understanding and Morality14 Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.