Aesthetic EssaysThe book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in aesthetics. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important issues in aesthetics which are not specific to particular art forms. These include the nature and proper scope of the aesthetic, the intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgements, the correct understanding of aesthetic judgements expressed through metaphors, aesthetic realism versus anti-realism, the character of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic value, the aim of art and the artistic expression of emotion. Other essays are focussed on central issues in the aesthetics of particular art forms: two engage with the most fundamental issue in the aesthetics of music, the question of the correct conception of the phenomenology of the experience of listening to music with understanding; and two consider the nature of pictorial representation, one examining certain well-known views, the other articulating an alternative conception of seeing a picture as a depiction of a certain state of affairs. The final essay in the volume is a comprehensive reconstruction and critical examination of Wittgenstein's aesthetics, both early and late. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 10 | |
2 Aesthetic Essence | 31 |
3 The Acquaintance Principle | 48 |
4 The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgements | 62 |
5 The Pure Judgement of Taste as an Aesthetic Reflective Judgement | 105 |
6 Understanding Music | 122 |
7 The Characterization of Aesthetic Qualities by Essential Metaphors and QuasiMetaphors | 142 |
9 Aesthetic Realism and Emotional Qualities of Music | 171 |
10 On Looking at a Picture | 185 |
11 The Look of a Picture | 216 |
12 Wollheim on Correspondence Projective Properties and Expressive Perception | 239 |
13 Wittgenstein on Aesthetics | 252 |
Sources and Acknowledgements | 278 |
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8 Musical Movement and Aesthetic Metaphors | 154 |
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aesthetic judgement aesthetic pleasure aesthetic property aesthetic quality Aesthetic Realism aesthetic value Aesthetics of Music appearance Approach to Aesthetics artistic value ascribe beautiful canonical basis characterization claim colour correspondence distinction emotion essay essential evaluative aesthetic example expressive perception extra-musical fact figurative descriptions Frank Sibley Goodman hear idea imagination inherent aesthetic intersubjective validity isomorphic item's aesthetic Jerrold Levinson judgement of taste Kant Kant's Kendall Walton kind of thing Levinson literal look Malcolm Budd marked surface means melody merit-constituting property metaphor movement nature Nelson Goodman non-aesthetic property notion object particular perceived phenomenology pictorial perception picture depicts picture-surface piece of music possesses possible predicate pure judgement purely descriptive quasi-metaphorical realistic recognitional aspect reference relation response rhythm Richard Wollheim Roger Scruton Scruton seeing-in sense Sibley's someone sounds spatial specific spectator structure theory thought understood virtue visual awareness visual experience visual field representation Wittgenstein words work's