Robert Stecker

Intersections of Value

Art, Nature, and the Everyday

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Stecker investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience of the world around us. He examines three contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. He explores how the aesthetic interacts with moral, cognitive, and functional values, and considers the place of the aesthetic in a good life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780198789956
• ISBN-10: 0198789955
• Artikelnr.: 56506640

Autorenporträt

Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value (1996), Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech and the Law (2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2010). He is currently co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
Part I: Two Kinds of Value: The Aesthetic and The Artistic
2: What is Aesthetic Value?
3: Why Artistic Value is not Aesthetic Value
4: Two Definitions of Artistic Value
Part II: Interacting Values in Art
5: Aesthetic Value, Inversion, and the Ethical Properties of Artworks
6: Literature as Thought
Part III: The Aesthetics of Nature and the Everyday
7: The Fundamental Problem of Environmental Aesthetics
8: Moral norms and Nature Appreciation
9: Artefacts: Function and Appreciation
10: Concluding Remarks