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Art and Analysis - An Essay toward a Theory in Aesthetics (Paperback, 1957 ed.)
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Art and Analysis - An Essay toward a Theory in Aesthetics (Paperback, 1957 ed.)
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Aesthetics, fledgling of the philosophic brood, is the most suspect
of that family. It is suspected of all the philosophical sins:
vagueness, disorder, dogmatism, emotionalism, reductionism,
compartmentalization. Sometimes its youth is thought to be a
sufficient excuse for these divagations. Sometimes the very nature
of its content, involving the waywardness of genius, the remoteness
of feeling from intellect, the surd of inspiration in even the
mildest appreciation, are believed to condemn aes thetics
irrevocably to the underside of the civilized man's domain. Some
philosophers have gloried in this apparently mystical and
a-rational quality and have seen in it the very nature of the
beautiful; others have come to regard it, rather, as evidence of
the unskillfulness of our minds and have turned away from aesthetic
problems to the task of sharpening the aesthetician's language and
logic. The laughter of the gods is not difficult to discern through
the poetry of the more mystical aesthetician or through the prose
of the analysts. Meanwhile the manifold complexities and problems
of aesthetic experience invite our understanding. For aesthetic
experience is a present fact of human life and may, perhaps, be
understood by men. Such, at least, will be the present assumption.
This is the reason why the title of this book mentions art together
with analysis; for if art is intelligible, the work of art and the
experience of it may be analyzed into its functional parts."
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