The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics: Cassirer, Crowther, and the Future

by Ioanna Kopsiafti and Elena Fell

Book Overview

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study. Aesthetic cognition has been largely abandoned by analytical philosophy, which instead tends to focus its attention on the 'non-exhibited' properties of artwork or issues concerning semantic and syntactic structure. The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics innovatively seeks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367877813
• ISBN13: 9780367877811
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages