Overview

George Dickie has been one of the most innovative, influential, and controversial philosophers of art working in the analytical tradition in the past twenty-five years. Dickie's arguments against the various theories of aesthetic attitude, aesthetic perception, and aesthetic experience virtually brought classical theories of the aesthetic to a halt. His institutional theory of art was perhaps the most discussed proposal in aesthetics during the 1970s and 1980s, inspiring both supporters who produced variations on the theory as well as passionate detractors who thought the theory thoroughly wrongheaded. Dickie has also written widely on the history of aesthetics, and his work ranks among the best examples of analytic aesthetics.

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Author:   Robert J. Yanal (Wayne State University)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780271025735

ISBN 10:   0271025735
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 April 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface 1. Reconsidering the Institutional Theory Noel Carroll/Identifying Art Jeffrey Wieand/Perceptually Indistinguishable Objects Susan Feagin/Valuing the Artworld 2. Reconsidering the Evaluation of Art Bohdan Dziemidok/On the Need to Distinguish Between Aesthetic and Artistic Evaluations of Art Peggy Zeglin Brand/Evaluating Art: A Feminist Case for Dickie's Matrix System Marcia Muelder Eaton/Evaluating More Than Art 3. Reconsidering the History of Aesthetics Peter Kivy/From Literature as Imagination to Literature as Memory: A Historical Sketch Ted Cohen/Partial Enchantments of the Quixote Story in Hume's Essay on Taste Robert J. Yanal/Kant on Aesthetic Ideas and Beauty George Dickie: A Biography and Bibliography

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Robert J. Yanal is Professor of Philosophy at Wayne State University.

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