The Self-Deceiving Muse - Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alan Singer is Professor of English at Temple University. His previous books include Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos (Penn State, 2003).

Zusammenfassung

Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception can illuminate the rationalistic functions of character.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alan Singer, Alan (Director of Graduate Studies Singer
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.01.2013
• EAN: 9780271048468
• ISBN: 978-0-271-04846-8
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 363 g
• Illustration: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Serie: Literature and Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory