Tag: Wollheim

• The Aesthetic Attitude

  

  Does aesthetic contemplation demand a special attitude? Primary reference papers: I have talked before about Disinterestedness. The idea that you must remove yourself, your desires, your wants, needs, what you stand to gain, you experience and your personality from a judgment of aesthetic beauty. To decide if something is beautiful, and therefore universal, it needs…

  Carolyn Jean Matthews

  March 21, 2012

  Aesthetic Philosophy

  aesthetic, Aesthetic Theory, berlant, Bullough, disinteredness, Hume, Kant, Moritz, Osborne, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Wollheim