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ISBN: 9781501718151

Content: A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes their creation and perception? But exploring such underlying cultural conditions challenges the perception of thosequalities and meanings of aesthetic surface that constitute the captivating power of art. If aesthetics deals with both surface and depth, impassioned immediacy yet also critical distance of judgment, how can this doubleness be held together in one philosophical vision?In his new book, Richard Shusterman explores the dialectics of surface and depth by examining key issues in the philosophy of art and culture—from the logic of interpretation and evaluation to the roots of taste and convention, from the meanings of aesthetic purity and immediacy to the role of nature, theory, and history in our experience and understanding of art. In treating these topics, Shusterman combines the methods of analytic philosophy, critical theory, and poststructualism to arrive at new positions, displaying the philosophical versatility, originality of vision, and graceful, accessible writing that have become his trademark. Surface and Depth is crowned by a new definition of art as dramatization.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , Part I: Logics of Criticism -- , 1. On Analytic Aesthetics: From Empiricism to Metaphysics -- , 2. Logics of Interpretation: The Persistence of Pluralism -- , 3. Croce on Interpretation: Deconstruction and Pragmatism -- , 4. Wittgenstein and Critical Reasoning -- , Part II: Logics of Culture -- , 5. Of the Scandal of Taste: Social Privilege as Nature in the Aesthetics of Hume and Kant -- , 6. Convention: Variations on the Nature/Culture Theme -- , 7. From Natural Roots to Cultural Radicalism: Pragmatist Aesthetics in Alain Locke and John Dewey -- , 8. Eliot and Adorno on the Critique of Culture -- , 9. Deep Theory and Surface Blindness: On the Aesthetic Visibility of Print -- , Part III: Contemporary Reconstructions -- , 10. Art in a Box: Danto -- , 11. Pragmatism and Culture: Margolis and Rorty -- , 12. Cultural Analysis and the Limits of Philosophy: The Case of Bourdieu -- , 13. Art as Dramatization -- , Notes -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501718151

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718151