Artistic Judgement: A Framework for Philosophical Aesthetics

by Graham Mcfee

Book Overview

Preface.- Chapter One: The Artistic and The Aesthetic: A Distinction Considered. - 1.1 A crucial distinction.- 1.2 Transfiguration and artistic properties- 1.3 Some corollaries of the distinction.- 1.4 Contrasting views of the aesthetic.- 1.5 The artistic as sensuous?- 1.6 The 'ambiguity' of artistic properties.- 1.7 An example: the case of Marla.- 1.8 Exploring the contrast: methodology.- 1.9 Outline of this work.- 1.10 On not defining art.- Chapter Two: Art, Meaning and Occasion-Sensitivity.- 2.1 Meaning meaning.- 2.2 Exceptions (a): dealing with defeasibility.- 2.3 Exceptions (b): disambiguation?- 2.4 An occasion-sensitive view of meaning and understanding.- 2.5 Contextualism in philosophical aesthetics.- 2.6 Competent judges.- 2.7 Meaning, explaining, and artistic properties.- 2.8 Meaning, explanation and content.- 2.9 The context of philosophical aesthetics.- Chapter Three: Art and Life-Issues: Meeting Counter-Cases.- 3.1 Artistic value and life-issues.- 3.2 Life-issues connection to artworks?- 3.3 The importance of life-issues.- 3.4. Learning from art?- 3.5 Art and moral value: moderate moralism, ethicism.- 3.6 A seven-part strategy.- 3.7 Literary value and moral understanding: Nussbaum.- 3.8 A conflict between morality and art?- 3.9 Conclusion.- Chapter Four: Intention, Authorship and Artistic Realism.- 4.1 The intention of the artist.- 4.2 Excursus: Hypothetical intentionalism and its discontents.- 4.3 The embodiment of artistic meaning.- 4.4 Making meaning: the concept "art".- 4.5 Making sense: 'history of production'.- 4.6 Response-reliance and artistic properties.- 4.7 Understanding and criticism.- 4.8 Criticism and inference.- 4.9 The 'reality' of artistic properties.- Chapter Five: The Historical Character of Art.- 5.1 Precursors and the past.- 5.2 Art, change of meaning and standard historicism.- 5.3 Forward retroactivism, and the threat of misperception.- 5.4 Are these genuine properties?- 5.5 Reasons and 'new evidence'.- 5.6 Are these new properties?- 5.7 Making sense of the past.- 5.8 Oeuvre, action and understanding.- 5.9 Genre and artistic intention.- 5.10 An argument against any historicism.- 5.11 Historical character and understanding - some realism.- Chapter Six: The Republic of Art: A Plausible Institutional Account of Art?- 6.1 The idea of an institutional concept.- 6.2 Sketch of an institutional account of art.- 6.3 A more plausible (than Dickie's) account of art.- 6.4 Topics for criticism.- 6.5 Does Dickie's later theory fare better?- 6.6 Wollheim's criticism.- 6.7 Critical reflections.- 6.8 Can the institution be wrong?- 6.9 The Friends of Jones. 6.10 What the account offers. Chapter Seven: Conclusion.- 7.1 The framework: a summary.- 7.2 The aesthetic reconsidered.- 7.3 Envoi: The Muscular Aesthetic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 940070030X
• ISBN13: 9789400700307
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"