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Art, Self and Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Art, Self and Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Art can provide us with a sensory experience that provokes us to
reconfigure how we think about our world and ourselves. Theories of
art have often sought to find some feature of art that isolates it
from the rest of experience. Keith Lehrer argues, in opposition,
that art is connected, not isolated, from how we think and feel,
represent and react. When art directs our attention to sensory
exemplars in aesthetic experience of which we become conscious in a
special way, it also shows us our autonomy as we represent
ourselves and our world, ourselves in our world, and our world in
ourselves. This form of representation, exemplar representation,
uses the exemplar as a term of representation and exhibits the
nature of the content it represents in terms of itself. It shows us
both what our world is like and how we represent the world thereby
revealing the nature of intentionality to us. Issues of general
interest in philosophy such as knowledge, autonomy, rationality and
self-trust enter the book along with more specifically aesthetic
issues of formalism, expressionism, representation, artistic
creativity and beauty. The author goes on to demonstrate how the
connection between art and broader issues of feminism,
globalization, collective wisdom, and death show us the connection
between art, life, politics and the self.
Drawing from Hume, Reid, Goodman, Danto, Brand, Ismael and Lopes,
Lehrer argues here that the artwork is a mentalized physical object
engaging us philosophically with the content of exemplar
experience. The exemplar representation of experience provoked by
art ties art and science, mind and body, self and world, together
in a dynamic loop, reconfiguring them all as it reconfigures art
itself.
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