世界の美学的価値 The Aesthetic Value of the World

Cochrane, Tom

Oxford University Press（2021/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192848819
• DDC分類 701.17

Full Description

In The Aesthetic Value of the World, Tom Cochrane defends Aestheticism, the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one. Furthermore, in distilling aesthetic qualities, artists have a special role to play in teaching us to recognize values; a critical component of virtue. Cochrane grounds his account upon an analysis of aesthetic value as 'objectified final value', which is underwritten by an original psychological claim that all aesthetic values are distal versions of practical values. This is followed by systematic accounts of beauty, sublimity, comedy, drama, and tragedy, as well as appendix entries on the cute, the cool, the kitsch, the uncanny, the horrific, the erotic, and the furious.

Contents

Introduction
1: Aesthetic Value
2: The Beautiful
3: The Sublime
4: The Dramatic
5: The Tragic
6: The Comic
7: In Defence of Aestheticism
8: The Creation of Art
Appendix: Minor Aesthetic Values