Singularities : Essays in Aesthetics

Ridley, Aaron

Oxford University Press（2024/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192845979
• DDC分類 111.85

Full Description

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 what an explanation should be like. Intended equally for specialists and students, this collection offers a distinctive approach to aesthetics that will be of interest to any reader concerned with philosophical reflection upon the arts.

Contents

Introduction
Part 1: Creativity
1: R.G. Collingwood: a Philosophy of Art
2: Against Musical Ontology
3: Pieces of Music and Pinches of Salt
4: Why Ethics and Aesthetics are Practically the Same
5: Making Art, Making Craft
6: Kant's Aesthetic Ideas
Part 2: Judgement
7: On the Musically Possible
8: Song as a Whole
9: Bad Art
10: Alex Neill, University of Southampton: Critical Conversions
11: Religious Music for Godless Ears
12: Art Works: on Functional Beauty
References
Index