The Contemplative Activity - Eight Lectures on Aesthetics (Hardcover)

First published in 1954, The Contemplative Activity analyses our knowledge of aesthetic experience, making the basic assumption that the existence of such experience is a hard core of fact which can only be described. Haezrahi's approach to the problem of aesthetic judgment is analytical, concerned with clarifying its preconditions, determining its categories and tracing its implications. Her analysis reveals it consists a particular mode of perception and a particular attitude adopted towards what is so perceived. The various philosophies of art and beauty, though they represent attitudes different from the purely aesthetic one, are carefully examined too since the contemplative spectator is indebted to them for the achievement of adequate aesthetic responses to specific works of art. Haezrahi also discusses methods of objective evaluation of the aesthetic experience as well as possible means to reduce the margin of error involved in the particular responses of critics and theorists. This book will be particularly important for students of philosophy and of art.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Release date:	2022
First published:	1954
Authors:	Pepita Haezrahi
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	137
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-219512-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-03-219512-6
Barcode:	9781032195124

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