Phenomenology of Aesthetic Consciousness and Phantasy - Working With Husserl

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl's aesthetics. Crowther pieces together Husserl's ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a unified and innovative account of aesthetic consciousness. He also shows how Husserl's ideas can be developed to solve problems related to visual art, literature, theatre, and nature.

List of contents

Introduction: Husserl’s Phenomenology and Phenomenological Aesthetics
Chapter 1. The Scope of Aesthetic Consciousness
Chapter 2. The Phenomenology of Visual Representation
Chapter 3. Aesthetic Form and the Phenomenological Reduction
Chapter 4. The Phenomenology of Literature, Theatre, and Music
Final Review: And Some Glimpses of the Digital…

About the author

Paul Crowther is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland Galway, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published many monographs on phenomenology and the arts, most recently The Aesthetics of Self-Becoming: How Art Forms Empower, Routledge (2019)

Summary

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a unified and innovative account of aesthetic consciousness. He also shows how Husserl’s ideas can be developed to solve problems related to visual art, literature, theatre, and nature.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Crowther, Crowther Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032080239
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208023-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Research in Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism