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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Dimensions of an Aesthetic Encounter: Encountering Giorgione's Sunset -- Encountering Giorgione's Sunset -- Perception and the Qualitative Matrix -- The Play of Interpretants -- Gadamer's Hermeneutic Distinctions -- Mimesis, Poiesis, and Semiosis -- 2. Energies of Objects: Between Dewey and Langer -- Framing the Issues -- Giorgione's The Tempest and Hustvedt's Game of Glances -- On Rhythms -- On Livingness -- On Experiential Forces -- Between Description and Prescription -- 3. Quality and the Theory of Signs: Dewey's Peircean Aesthetics -- Centrality of the Theory of Quality -- Going Out into Symbolization -- Imaginal, Diagrammatical, and Metaphorical Dimensions -- Deweyan Interpretants and the Artwork -- An Exemplification: Engaging Michelangelo's Moses -- Robert Browning -- John Dewey -- Sigmund Freud -- Giorgio Vasari -- Beyond the Propositional -- Conclusion -- 4. Aesthetic Naturalism and the "Ways of Art": Linking Dewey and Samuel Alexander -- Embodiment in a Medium -- Understanding Quality -- More on the Medium -- The Materiality of Inspiration -- Open Nature of Experiencing -- Metaphysical Links -- 5. Between Nature and Art: Analytical Exemplifications of Dewey's Aesthetics -- Nature as Matrix and Medium -- The Scroll and the Smile: Experience Has No Edges -- Paradigms of Painting: On Representation, Expression, and Abstraction -- Shaping Nature: Qualities of Space-Time in Art and Life -- The Exemplary Place of Architecture -- On Design and the Hand -- Feeling and Materiality -- Architecture and the Articulation of the Existential Space of Meaning -- Conclusion -- 6. Pragmatism and the Challenge of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetics: On Theory beyond Borders -- The Problem-Scharfstein's Challenge -- Some Analytical Complexities. Engaging Boundaries and Affinities: The Great Image Has No Form -- On Blandness and the Circle of the Perceived -- Peirce's Aesthetics and the Way of Beauty -- The Poem of the Universe and the Primacy of Quality -- Peircean Parallels in the Taoist Way of Beauty -- 7. Filling the Hole in Sense: Between Art and Philosophy -- The Wound in Consciousness -- Art and the "Far Side of Use": Being in the Presence of Something -- Form between Symbolization and Abstraction -- Philosophy as Epiphanic and Episodic -- Being Affected: The Ineffable and the Invisible -- Art, Philosophy, and the Noise of Meaninglessness: Letting Go of Argumentation -- Art's Challenge to Philosophy -- References -- Index.
A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.
9781438488264
Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 Dewey, John 1859-1952 Langer, Susanne Katherina Knauth 1895-1985