Aesthetics and the theory of criticism; selected essays of Arnold Isenberg

Note: 73077133 Edited by William Callaghan [and others] With an introd. by Mary Mothersill and a biographical sketch by William Callaghan. Includes bibliographical references. Aesthetics: Music and ideas. Formalism. Perception, meaning, and the subject matter of art. The technical factor in art. The aesthetic function of language. The problem of belief. On defining metaphor.--Criticism: Cordelia absent. A poem by Frost and some principles of criticism. Critical communication. "Pretentious" as an aesthetic predicate. Superlatives. Some problems of interpretation.--Ethics and moral psychology: Natural pride and natural shame. Deontology and the ethics of lying. Ethical and aesthetic criticsm.--Appendices (p. [283]-316).--A. Analytical philosophy and the study of art.--B. Notebooks and letters.

Keyword(s): Aesthetics Collected works.. Criticism Collected works.. Isenberg, Arnold.

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