Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of the imagination: what it is for something to be fictional is that there is some requirement that a reader imagine it. Derek Matravers argues that this rests on a mistake; the proffered definitions of 'the imagination' do not link it with fiction but with representations more generally. In place of the flawed consensus, he offers an account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative whether that narrative is fictional or non-fictional. The view that emerges, which draws extensively on work in psychology, downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction and largely dispenses with the imagination. In the process, he casts new light on a succession of issues: on the 'paradox of fiction', on the issue of fictional narrators, on the problem of 'imaginative resistance', and on the nature of our engagement with film.

Fiction --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Fiction. --- Imagination (Philosophy) --- Discours narratif --- Roman --- Imaginaire (Philosophie) --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Aesthetics --- Emotions (Philosophy) --- Emotions in art --- Philosophy --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Aesthetics. --- Emotions in art. --- Emotions (Philosophy). --- 78.82 --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Derek Matravers introduces students to the philosophy of art through a close examination of eight famous works of twentieth-century art. Each work has been selected in order to best illustrate and illuminate a particular problem in aesthetics. Each artwork forms the basis of a single chapter and readers are introduced to such issues as artistic value, intention, interpretation, and expression through a careful analysis of the artwork. Questions considered include what does art mean in contemporary art practice? Is the artistic value of a painting the same as how much you like it?

Aesthetics. --- Art -- Philosophy -- Case studies. --- Art -- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Aesthetics --- Arts --- Philosophy. --- Art

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Political science --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Political philosophy --- Political science - Philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In 1797 Friedrich Schlegel wrote that "philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy, or the art." This collection of essays contains both the philosophy and the art. It brings together an international team of leading philosophers to address diverse philosophical issues raised by recent works of art. Each essay engages with a specific artwork and explores the connection between the image and the philosophical content. Thirteen contemporary philosophers demonstrate how philosophy can aid interpretation of the work of ten contemporary artists ... The discussion ranges over ethical, political, psychological and religious concepts, such as irony, disgust, apathy, inequality, physiognomy and wonder, to historical experiences of war, Marx-inspired political movements and Thatcherism, and standard problems in the philosophy of art, such as expression, style, depiction and ontology of art, as well as major topics in art history, such as vanitas painting, photography, pornography, and Dadaism. Many of the contributors are distinguished in areas of philosophy other than aesthetics and are writing about art for the first time. All show how productive the engagement can be between philosophy, more generally, and art.

Figurative art --- Art, Modern --- Aesthetics