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Informationen zum Autor Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at Jacobs University, Bremen Klappentext In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism! Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to humanize. In Art and Embodiment he develops this theme in much greater depth! arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generalityand completeness! and the concreteness and contingency of humanity's basic relation to the world. As the key element in his theory! he proposes an ecological definition of art. His strategy involves first mapping out and analyzing the logical boundaries and ontological structures of the aestheticdomain. He then considers key concepts from this analysis in the light of a tradition in Continental philosophy (notably the work of Kant! Heidegger! Merleau-Ponty! and Hegel) which--by virtue of the philosophical significance that it assigns to art--significantly anticipates the ecologicalconception. On this basis! Crowther is able to give a full formulation of his ecological definition. Art! in making sensible or imaginative material into symbolic form! harmonizes and conserves what is unique and what is general in human experience. The aesthetic domain answers basic needs intrinsicto self-consciousness itself! and art is the highest realization of such needs. In the creation and reception of art the embodied subject is fully at home with his or her environment. Zusammenfassung Paul Crowther argues that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generality and completeness, and the concreteness and contingency of humanity's basic relation to the world. He proposes an ecological definition of art: by making sensible or imaginative material into symbolic form, it harmonizes and conserves what is unique and what is general about human experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: An Ecological Theory of Art Part One: Varieties and Structures of Aesthetic Experience 1: Aesthetic Domain: A Logical Geography 2: Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Art 3: Alienation and Disalienation in Abstract Art Part Two: The Philosophical Significance of Art 4: Fundamental Ontology and Transcendent Beauty: An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics 5: Heidegger and the Question of Aesthetics 6: Merleau-Ponty: Vision and Painting 7: Art, Architecture, and Self-Consciousness: An Exploration of Hegel's Aesthetics Part Three: The Ecological Significance of Art 8: The Needs of Self-Consciousness: From Aesthetic Experience to Unalienated Artifice 9: Art and the Needs of Self-Consciousness 10: Defining Art: Questions of Creativity and Originality Appendix Conclusion Index ...
