Singularities: Essays in Aesthetics

by Aaron Ridley

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetics: artistic creativity and aesthetic judgement. Ranging from Kant himself to contemporary debates, from song to conceptual art, from ethics to atheism, from function to failure, Aaron Ridley explores the ways in which the one-off character of creativity and judgement may defy our ordinary expectations of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192845977
• ISBN13: 9780192845979
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"