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Aesthetic value

Author: Alan H Goldman
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.
Series: Focus series (Westview Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this concise survey, intended for advanced undergraduate students of aesthetics, Alan Goldman focuses on the question of aesthetic value, using many practical examples from painting, music, and literature to make his case. Although he treats a wide variety of views, he argues for a non-realist view of aesthetic value, showing that the personal element can never be factored out of evaluative aesthetic judgments and  Read more...
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Goldman, Alan H., 1945-
Aesthetic value.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995
(OCoLC)605270783
Online version:
Goldman, Alan H., 1945-
Aesthetic value.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995
(OCoLC)607859619
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alan H Goldman
ISBN: 0813320186 9780813320182 0813320194 9780813320199
OCLC Number: 32468961
Description: ix, 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Evaluative Aesthetic Properties. Classification and Nature. The Humean Structure. Realism. Supervenience and Causality --
3. Base Properties. Expression. Representation. Form --
4. Interpretation and History. The Explanatory Theory. Other Theories. Filling Out Worlds of Representational Works. Historical Relativism --
5. Evaluation. Principles. Comparison to Moral Judgment. Valuable Effects. Of Time and Taste.
Series Title: Focus series (Westview Press)
Responsibility: Alan H. Goldman.
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In this concise survey, intended for advanced undergraduate students of aesthetics, Alan Goldman focuses on the question of aesthetic value, using many practical examples from painting, music, and literature to make his case. Although he treats a wide variety of views, he argues for a non-realist view of aesthetic value, showing that the personal element can never be factored out of evaluative aesthetic judgments and explaining why this is so.

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