This book argues that a special value of art is the way in which it uses conscious experience -- the exemplars of aesthetic experience -- to autonomously reconfigure how we conceive of our world and ourselves, ourselves in our worldand our world in ourselves. Exemplar representation ties art and science, mind and body, self and world together in a dynamic loop reconfiguring them all as it reconfigures itself. Art can provide us with a sensory experience that provokes us to reconfigure how we think about our world and ourselves. Theories of art have often sought to find some feature of art that isolates it from the rest of experience. Keith Lehrer argues, in opposition, that art is connected, not isolated, from how we think and feel, represent and react. When art directs our attention to sensory exemplars in aesthetic experience of which webecome conscious in a special way, it alsoshows us our autonomy as we represent ourselves and our world, ourselves in our world, and our world in ourselves. This form of representation, exemplar representation, uses the exemplar as a term of representation and exhibits the nature of the content it represents in terms of itself. It shows usboth what our world is like and how we represent the world thereby revealing the nature of intentionality to us. Issues of general interest in philosophy such as knowledge, autonomy, rationality and self-trust enter the book along with more specifically aesthetic issues of formalism, expressionism, representation, artistic creativity and beauty. The author goes on to demonstrate how theconnection between art and broader issues of feminism, globalization, collective wisdom, and death show usthe connection between art, life, politics and the self.Drawing from Hume, Reid, Goodman, Danto, Brand, Ismael and Lopes, Lehrer argues here that the artwork is a mentalized physical object engaging us philosophically with the content of exemplar experience. The exemplar representation of experience provoked by art ties art and science, mind and body, self and world, together in a dynamic loop, reconfiguring them all as it reconfigures art itself. Forward: Website Information, Summary and AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Knowing the Content of Art2. Consciousness, Exemplars and Art3. Aesthetic Theory, Feminist Art and Autonomy4. Value, Expression and Globalization5. Artistic Creation, Freedom, and Self6. Aesthetics, Death and Beauty7. Aesthetic Experience, Intentionality and the Form of Representation8. Theories of Art, and Art as Theory of the World9. Self-Trust, Disagreement, and Reasonable Acceptance10. Social Reason, Aggregation and Collective Wisdom11. Knowledge, Autonomy and Art in Loop Theory
- ISBN: 978-0-19-530499-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 15/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés