... Aesthetics For examples of the types of entries characteristic of Analytic Aesthetics, which is derived from twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy (and which is often contrasted with Continental Aesthetics, which is derived from nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy of the continent, exclusive of Great Britain), see, for example, Appreciation ; Attitude ; Definition of Art ; Emotions ; Evaluation ; Expression Theory of Art ; Fiction ; Formalism ; Imagination ; Intention ; Interpretation ; Metaphor ; Ontology of Art ; ...
For examples of the types of entries characteristic of Analytic Aesthetics, which is derived from twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy (and which is often contrasted with Continental ...
...Coleridge's alignment of subjectivity, aesthetics, and nature is established on the level of rhetoric rather than actuality, then it would seem itself to depend upon the mechanical world it disavows. More importantly, if the correspondence between nature and art is to be more than a subjective intuition, if it is to be the touchstone of a politics, it must be formulated in the language of the world it wants to occlude. Similarly, one might say that Coleridge's dream of a correspondence between subjectivity, aesthetics, and nature haunts De Quincey's work. It...
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...because grades were introduced to the market at different times: for example very thin *India paper was introduced into Europe c .1750 ; coated paper was produced and patented in 1827 , as was transparent paper. The weight of a paper can be gauged by hand, as can other aesthetics, often grouped together as ‘handle’. These are judged by gripping the sheet firmly, shaking it, and listening to the timbre of the rattle. Assessing paper by this method requires some experience, but it can give information on the degree of beating, possible furnish...
Gay aesthetics is an analytic category of recent origin. In 1969, in the wake of the civil rights and feminist movements, activists made the term gay liberation a rallying cry ...
For examples of essays characteristic of Continental Aesthetics (derived from nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy of the Continent, exclusive of Great Britain), which is often ...
Analytic philosophers have written infrequently on the aesthetics of the film though there are some recent signs of increasing interest. It is the question of what is distinctive about the ...
(1927–)Ronald Hepburn was born in Aberdeen on 16 March 1927. After education at Aberdeen Grammar School and national service in the army, he studied at Aberdeen University, where he ...
The impact on philosophy of early feminist writers such as Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft was in the area of political theory (Astell, 1694 and Wollstonecraft, 1792). As Enlightenment ideas ...
(1920–)John Kemp was born in Kent on 6 February 1920 and educated at Simon Langton Grammar School, Canterbury. In 1938 he was admitted to University College, Oxford to read ...
1 A specific type of representamen in Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic model, which he contrasts with the icon and the index. Peirce defines the symbol as conventional because the relation between ...
(1933– ).Oxford philosopher specializing in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and ethics, noted for his work on identity. He challenges P. T. Geach's doctrine of the relativity of identity, advancing ...
(1889–1957) English book collector of wide-ranging interests.In 1953, he sold his MSS and early printed books, as well as materials on Jeremy Bentham and Lord Brougham, to University College ...
A term originating in aesthetic theory (an early discussion is in Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra), where it designates an impersonal and universalized experience, or ‘mood’, of joy and bliss, which is created ...
(1920– )Cambridge-born Australian philosopher. Smart emigrated from England to Australia in 1950, and subsequently held appointments at a number of universities, including the Australian National ...
(1751–1824).English landscape theorist, member of the Society of Dilettanti, and connoisseur. He designed (with some initial help from T. F. Pritchard) Downton Castle, Herefs. (1772–8), a Picturesque ...
In the philosophy of logic, psychologism is the view that logic is based upon the laws of thought, where these are descriptions of the actual processes whereby human beings think. Logic becomes not ...
(1930–2004)French philosopher of poststructuralism, who introduced the philosophical and literary method known as deconstruction.Like his contemporary Althusser, Derrida was a native of Algiers who ...
(1889–1976)German existential philosopher, author of Sein und Zeit (1927).Born a Catholic, the son of a sexton in Baden-Wurttemberg, Heidegger originally intended to become a Jesuit priest. He was ...
(1881–1973)Spanish artist. Because of his prolific inventiveness and his technical and expressive brilliance he dominated avant-garde art in the first half of the twentieth century and is usually ...
