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This chapter offers an answer to the question: what is aesthetic value? It defends aesthetic empiricism: the view that the primary bearer of aesthetic value are experiences and that other things have aesthetic value in virtue of their capacity to provide aesthetically valuable experiences.
2 sty 2022 · This paper diagnoses how the tradition came to think in this problematic way about aesthetic value. It then sketches an approach to aesthetic value that boosts the refractive power of the tools that scholars of the arts can use to bring into focus some of the specificities they care about.
aesthetic value. The grounds of aesthetic value are those properties of the object - including literary works - that give the object its aesthetic value, that enable it to exercise its aesthetic capacity, when the right receiver comes along. And here I can give no better brief account than Eugene Falk has given: the grounds of aesthetic value ...
This paper is a review of the literature dealing with the impact of directionality on aesthetics, the degree to which this is a result of cerebral processing, and the degree to which it results from habit or cultural variation.
22 gru 2021 · My primary aim in this piece is to outline six basic questions about aesthetic reasons, aesthetic value, and aesthetic normativity. In making these questions and the space of possible answers more precise, I aim to offer clearer ways to organise and think through these matters.
The aim of this paper is to show how the study of literature can break the barriers between aesthetics and theory by combining them together in several ways, suggesting possible ties within the creation and the act of reading literature, with particular reference to fictitious narratives.
Aesthetic value is the value that an object, event, or state of affairs (most paradigmatically an artwork or the natural environment) possesses in virtue of its capacity to elicit pleasure (positive value) or displeasure (negative value) when appreciated or experienced aesthetically.
