Art's emotions : ethics, expression and aesthetic experience

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    • Freeman, Damien

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Art's emotions : ethics, expression and aesthetic experience

Damien Freeman

Acumen, 2012

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205) and index

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内容説明

Despite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet's Woman with a Parrot and listening to Elgar's Cello Concerto, both experiences provoke similar questions in the thoughtful aesthete: why does the painting seem to express reverie and the music, nostalgia? How do we experience the reverie and nostalgia in such works of art? Why do we find these experiences rewarding in similar ways? As our awareness of emotion in art, and our engagement with art's emotions, can make such a special contribution to our life, it is timely for a philosopher to seek to account for the nature and significance of the experience of art's emotions. Damien Freeman develops a new theory of emotion that is suitable for resolving key questions in aesthetics. He then reviews and evaluates three existing approaches to artistic expression, and proposes a new approach to the emotional experience of art that draws on the strengths of the existing approaches. Finally, he seeks to establish the ethical significance of this emotional experience of art for human flourishing. Freeman challenges the reader not only to consider how art engages with emotion, but how we should connect up our answers to questions concerning the nature and value of the experiences offered by works of art.

目次

Introduction 1. The Emotional Economy 2. Perception of Emotion in the World 3. The Varieties of Emotional Experience 4. Art and the Plenary Experience of Emotion 5. The Value of Art and the Practice of Life Conclusion

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