Distracted Aesthetics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Engagement with Distractive Works of Art
Western aesthetics has privileged contemplation as a necessary condition for authentic aesthetic experience. In contrast, I argue that the adequacy of aesthetic comportment must be measured by the self-presentation of the object in question, shaped by the place from which such presentations issue. T...
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Language: | English |
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University of Warsaw
2023-09-01
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Series: | Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture |
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Online Access: | https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/distracted-aesthetics/ |