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Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions argues that literary fictions, pictures, and other artworks are modes of access to Gottlob Frege's "third realm" of objective thoughts, about both what is in the real world and what is not, but might, or might not, be. Starting with a critique of fictionalism—the doctrine that art makes no ontological commitments because it depends on acts of pretending—Andrei Pop shifts focus to the shared meaning addressed by acts of pretending and other audience reactions to works of art. This book shows that a Fregean theory of sense, assertion, and concepts does justice to the context-specificity of artistic meaning while allowing for durable—indeed eternal—conceptual content. It explores implications for venerable problems such as the truth of art, the reality of aesthetic properties, beauty and ugliness, but also for specific genres or modes, like sculpture, allegory, the relation between image and caption, and the first-person picture.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Frodo Lives!
Chapter 1: What Fiction Could Not Be
Chapter 2: From Make-Believe to Realism
Chapter 3: Frege's Theory of Pictures
Chapter 4: Art and Truths
Chapter 5: Allegory and its Discontents
Chapter 6: Sculpture as Cubic Form
Chapter 7: Bolzano on the Objectivity of Ugliness (and Beauty)
Chapter 8: Aesthetic Properties: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Chapter 9: Goya and the Paradox of Tolerance
Chapter 10: On First Person Perspective(s)
Conclusion: Flower Arranging in the Library of Babel
Bibliography
Notes
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