What Ever Happened to Anti-Essentialism?

How should one explain the relative disappearance of a major preoccupation of English-speaking Analytical Philosophy in the late 1950s/early 1960s: an anti-essentialist response to the question, ‘What is art?’, typified in papers by Kennick and Weitz? Minimally, anti-essentialism denies the widely-...

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Main Author: Graham McFee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2019-07-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/11968