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Philosophy And The Arts (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,545
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Philosophy And The Arts (Hardcover): Andrew Harrison

Philosophy And The Arts (Hardcover)

Andrew Harrison

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This text is part of the "Bristol Introductions" series which aims to present perspectives on philosophical themes, using non-technical language, for both the new and the advanced scholar. This introductory text examines how questions of understanding the pictorial and narrative arts relate to central themes in philosophy. It addresses such issues as: how can pictorial and narrative arts be usefully contrasted and compared?; what in principle can be, or cannot be, communicated in such different media?; why does it seem that, at its best, artistic communication goes beyond the limitations of its own medium - seeming to think and to communicate the incommunicable?; and what kinds of thought are exercised in the pictorial and narrative arts? Both refer to or represent what we take the world to be, and in so doing make the concepts of aesthetic judgement and imagination unavoidable. The ways of understanding art are ways of understanding what it is to be human. Much of what baffles or misleads us in the arts invokes what puzzles us about ourselves. The issues raised are therefore central to philosophy as a discipline - failures in understanding art can be philosophical failures.

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Imprint: Thoemmes Continuum
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 1996
First published: April 1996
Authors: Andrew Harrison
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 978-1-85506-499-7
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
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LSN: 1-85506-499-5
Barcode: 9781855064997

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