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PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-101845194705

ISBN-139781845194703

eBay Product ID (ePID)99629650

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Book TitleBeyond Words, Things, Thoughts, Feelings : Essays on Aesthetic Experience

Number of Pages120 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicCriticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics

GenreArt, Philosophy, Psychology

AuthorHa Poong Kim

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-004397

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"This collection of seven essays on the nature of aesthetic experience is to be lauded for its comparative approach: comparative in the double sense of bringing the contributions of Western philosophers such as Plato, Kant, and Danto into conversation with the Eastern tradition of Buddhism, and also of using literary examples to illuminate philosophical points. In the two appendixes, Cho (formerly, Eastern Illinois Univ.) presents his views on how the 'common love of beautiful things is an abstract enjoyment.' As such, he notes, it entails the alienation of aesthetic experience because abstract enjoyment is a function of the thinking mind, and aesthetic experience is truly authentic only when it is a function of the seeing mind. Cho then questions the idea of performance art as an art form. The points that Cho raises are important to the field of aesthetics, but they are not well developed. The author takes Wittgenstein's imploration to describe rather than to explain too far. The result is a suggestive collection of sketches without enough sustained argument to make the points compelling to the thinking mind. Cho, however, with his whimsical collection, does offer much to the seeing mind. Recommended." - Choice, "This collection of seven essays on the nature of aesthetic experience is to be lauded for its comparative approach: comparative in the double sense of bringing the contributions of Western philosophers such as Plato, Kant, and Danto into conversation with the Eastern tradition of Buddhism, and also of using literary examples to illuminate philosophical points. . . . Recommended." Choice, "This collection of seven essays on the nature of aesthetic experience is to be lauded for its comparative approach: comparative in the double sense of bringing the contributions of Western philosophers such as Plato, Kant, and Danto into conversation with the Eastern tradition of Buddhism, and also of using literary examples to illuminate philosophical points. . . . Recommended." - Choice, "This collection of seven essays on the nature of aesthetic experience is to be lauded for its comparative approach: comparative in the double sense of bringing the contributions of Western philosophers such as Plato, Kant, and Danto into conversation with the Eastern tradition of Buddhism, and also of using literary examples to illuminate philosophical points. . . . Recommended." -- Choice

Dewey Decimal111/.85

SynopsisWhat is the nature of aesthetic experience? Author Ha Poong Kim suggests that a genuine aesthetic experience is a perceptual state of consciousness, free of thought. He characterizes it as subjectless, objectless, timeless, revelatory, and joyous. It is a state of mind thus markedly different from our everyday experience, where thought processes impinge on our consciousness. In this book, Ha Poong Kim shares his thoughts on aesthetic experience. Part I tackles the nature of aesthetic experience, as opposed to everyday perception, and illuminates the experience of the beautiful by discussing Plato's famous allegory of the charioteer in Phaedrus and an episode in Proust's In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, the second section of In Search of Lost Time. Part II takes a critical look at Kant's treatment of the judgment of taste in his Critique of Judgment and Eduard Hanslick's conception of the imagination. Part III details Kim's thoughts on several topics of the current debate in aesthetics - among them, the difference between aesthetic and intellectual pleasure, and the nature of expressiveness of music. In the first of the two essays in Part III, the author critically discusses Christopher Butler's interpretation of artworks as narrative, and in the second essay, Peter Kivy's theory of expressive properties. Two appendices are provided: one on the alienation of aesthetic experience in the common love of artworks as values, and the other on performance art as an art form., What is the nature of aesthetic experience? Ha Poong Kim suggests that a genuine aesthetic experience is a perceptual state of consciousness, free of thought. He characterises it as subjectless, objectless, timeless, revelatory, and joyous. It is a state of mind thus markedly different from our everyday experience where thought processes impinge randomly on our consciousness. The seven essays are divided to three parts. Part I tackles the nature of aesthetic experience, as opposed to everyday perception, and attempts to illuminate the experience of the beautiful by discussing Plato's famous allegory of the charioteer in Phaedrus and an episode in Proust's In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, the second section of In Search of Lost Time. Part II takes a critical look at Kant's treatment of the judgement of taste in his Critique of Judgement and Eduard Hanslick's conception of the imagination. Part III details Kim's thoughts on several topics of the current debate in aesthetics -- among them, on the difference between aesthetic and intellectual pleasure, and the nature of expressiveness of music. In the first of the two essays in Part III the author discusses critically Christopher Butler's interpretation of artworks as narrative, and in the second, Peter Kivy's theory of expressive properties. Two appendices are provided: one on the alienation of aesthetic experience in the common love of artworks as values; and the other on performance art as an art form, especially in view of the recent retrospective of Marina Abramovic (MoMA, New York). In this appendix, the author presents a critique of today's prevailing conception of art., What is the nature of aesthetic experience? This title suggests that a genuine aesthetic experience is a perceptual state of consciousness, free of thought. It characterises it as subjectless, objectless, timeless, revelatory, and joyous.

LC Classification NumberBH301.E8K46 2011