An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

of both linguistic and social codes that seemed to dominate artistic produc- tion, and in opposition both to the veneer of refin ...

origin”so as“to orient, balance, and organize the structure.”^51 Perhaps such orienting efforts cannot be quite wholly foregone. ...

to explain and justify why artists and authors–unlike ordinary craftsmen in the industrial and domestic arts–deserve a uniquely ...

to think that man is only a recent invention...a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that ...

praised“feminine”qualities in male creators...but claimed females could not–or should not–create...The genius’s instinct, emotio ...

from magisterial individual vision preconceived by an isolated creator alone. Women have had less than a full share of opportuni ...

imaginative exploration of material, is available and valuable within a variety of artistic practices and traditions. Part of th ...

Creativity: Scruton and Coleridge on artistic imagination In exploring the materials of a medium in relation to subject matter a ...

by objects in relation to human or other sensory faculties: being red or blue, sour or sweet, loud or soft. They are real enough ...

glimpse of the reality of freedom; and because, as Kant reminds us, reason deals only in necessities, we hear the free order of ...

In characterizing primary imagination as the“prime agent of all human perception,”Coleridge means that human beings take in the ...

their affective powers and inferential connections within one another within the game of make-believe:^73 to pretend or imagine ...

actual] with fresh meanings,”^78 especially meanings in relation to the inter- ests and emotions of human subjects. This is what ...

between means and ends. Much of labor is itself uninteresting, mechanical, and spiritually deadening, and the laborer has no way ...

6 Understanding art Six strategies for understanding art Consider the following six very broad strategies for understanding Shak ...

3.Hamletcan be seen in light of its fulfillment of nondeliberated inten- tions. For example, it is written in early modern Engli ...

to make use of the characters in other dramatic settings than those presented in the text: for example, to depict Hamlet as a fo ...

half-articulated class and gender issues is to see it as giving usentréeto the deep, unspoken preoccupations of a people, but it ...

What Hegel means by this, among other things, is that it is a mistake to regard thinking as primarily and originally a matter of ...

and therapy can sometimes help the insane. There is good reason to regard human beings, no matter what their failures to think a ...