Description: Aesthetics As Philosophy of Perception, Hardcover by Nanay, Bence, ISBN 0199658447, ISBN-13 9780199658442, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. 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. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very different, and may be easier to tackle, if we clarify the assumptions they make about perception and about experiences in general. The focus of Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is the concept of attention and the ways in which this concept and especially the distinction between distributed and focused attention can help us re-evaluate various key concepts and debates in aesthetics. Sometimes our attention is distributed in an unusual way: we are attending to one perceptual object but our attention is distributed across its various properties. This way of experiencing the world is special and it plays an important role in characterizing a number of phenomena associated with aesthetics. Some of these that th talks about include picture perception and depiction, aesthetic experiences, formalism, the importance of uniqueness in aesthetics, and the history of vision debate. But sometimes, in some aesthetic contexts, our attention is not at all distributed, but very much focused. Nanay closes his argument with an analysis of some paradigmatic aesthetic phenomena where our attention is focused: identification and engagement with fictional characters. And the conflict and interplay between distributed and focused attention is an important feature of many artworks.
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Book Title: Aesthetics As Philosophy of Perception
Number of Pages: 228 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Aesthetics As Philosophy of Perception
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Mind & Body, Aesthetics, Metaphysics
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Bence Nanay
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Hardcover
