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Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

James Kirwan
James Kirwan*
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Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
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James Kirwan, Kansai University, Osaka 564-8680, Japan. Email: james_kirwan@hotmail.com
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Abstract

The following paper highlights the way in which contemporary analytic or Anglo-American aesthetics neglects the topic of aesthetic experience. The paper briefly examines the historical background to this situation. It also looks at how analytic aesthetics’ preoccupation with the topic of art is largely responsible for this neglect. It concludes by arguing that most of the fundamental problems in aesthetics, including those that contemporary analytic aesthetics does concern itself with, must remain intractable without a better understanding of aesthetic experience per se.

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Diogenes , Volume 59 , Issue 1-2: Why New Aesthetics? , May 2012, pp. 177 - 183
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Copyright © ICPHS 2012

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