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On the category of 'the aesthetic'

Aesthetic Investigations, 2015
Those contrasting our appreciation of art (as artistic appreciation) with our appreciation of the other occasions when grace, line, elegance, and so on — or their opposites — (as aesthetic appreciation) typically give much fuller accounts of art ...
Graham James McFee
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DAVIES, S. 2012. The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art and Evolution

ESPES, 2014
DAVIES, S. 2012. The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art and Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 301 s. ISBN 978-0-19-965854-1.
Lukáš Makky
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The Atrocity of Representing Atrocity - Watching Kevin Carter's 'Struggling Girl'

Aesthetic Investigations, 2015
Taking Kevin Carter's famous photograph of a Sudanese 'Struggling Girl' as an example, this article shows by criticizing the work of photography scholar Ariella Azoulay who argues for an ethic, reparative spectatorship that focuses on the social ...
Merlijn Geurts
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Aesthetics as First Philosophy

Aesthetic Investigations, 2015
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Rob van Gerwen
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The Aesthetic Experience of the Literary Artwork: A Matter of Form and Content?

Aesthetic Investigations, 2015
Ever since the introduction of aesthetics in philosophy, the literary arts have posed a challenge to common notions of aesthetic experience. In this paper, I will focus on the problems that arise when a formalist approach to aesthetics is confronted ...
Leen Verheyen
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Making sense of darkness: art, sensation and a particular kind of thought process

Aesthetic Investigations, 2016
Experience can originate sensations that intensify awareness and thought, casting them to a place of oddness, far from what is common, encoded and comfortable; an intensity thus generated allows for sense to flow in various and different directions ...
Soraya Vasconcelos
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Aesthetics is the Grammar of Desire

Aesthetic Investigations, 2015
This essay presents (i) the nature of aesthetic judgement, (ii) the significance of aesthetic judgement and finally, (iii) the relevance of art to understanding aesthetic judgement.
Jennifer A. McMahon
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Using Philosophy of Perception in Aesthetics

Aesthetic Investigations, 2015
Aesthetics is about ways of experiencing the world. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress.
Bence Nanay
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Part of the people or apart from the people?

Aesthetic Investigations
Barbie (2023) is both a feminist and a metaphysical film. It is a story of ideas regarding girls and their fantasies and the relation of the two vis-à-vis each other.
clinton peter verdonschot
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What Ever Happened to Anti-Essentialism?

Aesthetic Investigations, 2019
How should one explain the relative disappearance of a major preoccupation of English-speaking Analytical Philosophy in the late 1950s/early 1960s: an anti-essentialist response to the question, ‘What is art?’, typified in papers by Kennick and Weitz ...
Graham McFee
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