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Apt Imaginings - Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (Hardcover)
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Apt Imaginings - Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (Hardcover)
Series: Thinking Art
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How do our engagements with fictions and other products of the
imagination compare to our experiences of the real world? Are the
feelings we have about a novel's characters modelled on our
thoughts about actual people? If it is wrong to feel pleasure over
certain situations in real life, can it nonetheless be right to
take pleasure in analogous scenarios represented in a fantasy or
film? Should the desires we have for what goes on in a make-believe
story cohere with what we want to happen in the actual world? Such
queries have animated philosophical and psychological theorizing
about art and life from Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to
contemporary debates over freedom of expression, ethics and
aesthetics, the cognitive value of thought experiments, and the
effects on audiences of exposure to violent entertainment. In Apt
Imaginings, Jonathan Gilmore develops a new framework to pursue
these questions, marshalling a wide range of research in
aesthetics, the science of the emotions, moral philosophy,
neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and film and literary theory.
Gilmore argues that, while there is a substantial empirical
continuity in our feelings across art and life, the norms that
govern the appropriateness of those responses across the divide are
discontinuous. In this view, the evaluative criteria that determine
the fit, correctness, or rationality of our emotions and desires
for what is internal to a fiction can be contrary to those that
govern our affective attitudes toward analogous things in the real
world. In short, it can be right to embrace within a story what one
would condemn in real life. The theory Gilmore defends in this
volume helps to explain our complex and sometimes conflicted
attitudes toward works of the imagination; challenges the popular
view that fictions serve to refine our moral sensibilities; and
exposes a kind of autonomy of the imagination that can render our
responses to art immune to standard real-world epistemic,
practical, and affective kinds of criticism.
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