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Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation - notably, in our own culture, as they are housed in museums.
Interpretation (Philosophy) --- Anthropomorphism. --- Symbolism --- God --- Philosophy --- Corporeality --- Interpretation (Philosophy).
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What Art Is Like is a comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art. It provides welcome relief from prevailing modes of explaining art that involve definitions, philosophical claims, and critical judgments put forth by third parties. Scrapping all such chatter, Miguel Tamen's aphoristic lark with aesthetic questions proceeds by taking its technical vocabulary only from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. According to Tamen, it would be ridiculous to think of poems or paintings or films or any variety of artistic production as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about many other relevant and important matters. Tamen offers a series of analogies and similes to help us imagine these connected experiences. One, taken from the analytical table of contents where the book is writ small, suggests that "understanding a poem is like understanding a cat; neither ever says anything back and you can't keep a conversation with them. All art is like this, but not only art is like this; nature, the past, numbers are also like this." Tamen takes up many central issues in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, including the connection between art and having fuzzy ideas about art, the mistake of imagining that art-decisions are put forth by art-courts where you are both judge and jury, and the notion that what happens with art also happens to you.
Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Carroll, Lewis, --- Alice --- Testoni, Giampaolo, --- Fairchild, Alice, --- Alicia --- Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
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Philosophy and literary theory have devoted a great deal of their analysis to the problem of the origin and modalities of argumentation, but there has been an almost total lack of interest in the question of its procedural limits. Manners of Interpretation is an essay on ways of ending interpretations in literary studies as well as on patterns of controversy and consensus in the humanities. Tamen examines two major families of indisputable arguments in post-Enlightenment literary criticism and addresses the question of how one recognizes the proper time to use a given argument, especially and specifically an indisputable argument. The former aim leads to a tentative history of the constitution of literary theory as a set of identifiable ways of using arguments. The latter, meanwhile, points to a theory of argument and controversy and to a contribution to the discussion of human activities that, in spite of not being teachable, are nevertheless learnable. Such a theory seems to be particularly relevant both to the study of the interpretive dimension of literary criticism as it is now practiced and also to the knowledge and description of an area of the humanities that has often been neglected.
Literature --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature. --- Hermeneutics. --- Criticism. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Literature History and criticism --- CRITICISM --- HERMENEUTICS --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- PHILOSOPHY --- Hermeneutics --- Literary Criticism --- Philosophy
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Criticism. --- Hermeneutics. --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.
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