... Arnold Berleant, Re-Thinking Aesthetics: Rogue Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts Reviewed by.... more ... Arnold Berleant, Re-Thinking Aesthetics: Rogue Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts Reviewed by. Thomas Leddy. Bookmark and Share. This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 3.0 Unported license. ...
Drawing on the experientialism of Lakoff and Johnson, I develop some metaphysical implications of... more Drawing on the experientialism of Lakoff and Johnson, I develop some metaphysical implications of metaphor theory. Not only do we understand the world in terms of conceptual metaphors, but fundamental constituents of our experienced world are metaphoric. I call these structures of experience essences. However, by essence I am not referring to eternal, unchanging entities. Essences are culturally emergent, both ontologically and historically. They are the referents of essentially contested concepts, and they emerge dialectically from practices and institutions in which those concepts are contested. Essences exist at an ontological level prior to the subject/object split and prior to clear distinctions among substance, attribute, and function. I relate this concept of essence to Ricoeur's notion of being as. I then argue that strong philosophical metaphors, which are often expressed in philosophical definition, reveal these metaphoric essences.
I should admit from the start that I am deeply sympathetic to Shusterman'sperspective. I, li... more I should admit from the start that I am deeply sympathetic to Shusterman'sperspective. I, like Shusterman, consider myself a pragmatist committed to a critique of analytic aesthetics from a revived Deweyan perspective. I, too, favor Hegelian themes of holism, historicism, and ...
... Why is the book The Will to Power unhelpful in answering these questions? ... Selections from... more ... Why is the book The Will to Power unhelpful in answering these questions? ... Selections from The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. ...
In the literature of aesthetics there are numer-ous lists of aesthetic qualities.' T... more In the literature of aesthetics there are numer-ous lists of aesthetic qualities.' These lists al-most invariably leave off an entire set of items which will be the topic of this paper. The items in their adjectival form are "neat," "messy," "clean/unclean,)" "dirty,)" "sloppy,)" "6filthy, " "ordered/ ...
... Arnold Berleant, Re-Thinking Aesthetics: Rogue Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts Reviewed by.... more ... Arnold Berleant, Re-Thinking Aesthetics: Rogue Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts Reviewed by. Thomas Leddy. Bookmark and Share. This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 3.0 Unported license. ...
Drawing on the experientialism of Lakoff and Johnson, I develop some metaphysical implications of... more Drawing on the experientialism of Lakoff and Johnson, I develop some metaphysical implications of metaphor theory. Not only do we understand the world in terms of conceptual metaphors, but fundamental constituents of our experienced world are metaphoric. I call these structures of experience essences. However, by essence I am not referring to eternal, unchanging entities. Essences are culturally emergent, both ontologically and historically. They are the referents of essentially contested concepts, and they emerge dialectically from practices and institutions in which those concepts are contested. Essences exist at an ontological level prior to the subject/object split and prior to clear distinctions among substance, attribute, and function. I relate this concept of essence to Ricoeur's notion of being as. I then argue that strong philosophical metaphors, which are often expressed in philosophical definition, reveal these metaphoric essences.
I should admit from the start that I am deeply sympathetic to Shusterman'sperspective. I, li... more I should admit from the start that I am deeply sympathetic to Shusterman'sperspective. I, like Shusterman, consider myself a pragmatist committed to a critique of analytic aesthetics from a revived Deweyan perspective. I, too, favor Hegelian themes of holism, historicism, and ...
... Why is the book The Will to Power unhelpful in answering these questions? ... Selections from... more ... Why is the book The Will to Power unhelpful in answering these questions? ... Selections from The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. ...
In the literature of aesthetics there are numer-ous lists of aesthetic qualities.' T... more In the literature of aesthetics there are numer-ous lists of aesthetic qualities.' These lists al-most invariably leave off an entire set of items which will be the topic of this paper. The items in their adjectival form are "neat," "messy," "clean/unclean,)" "dirty,)" "sloppy,)" "6filthy, " "ordered/ ...
Volume 12 of Contemporary Pragmatism features an author-meets-critics symposium on Richard Shuste... more Volume 12 of Contemporary Pragmatism features an author-meets-critics symposium on Richard Shusterman’s Thinking Through the Body, with articles by Thomas Leddy, Curtis L. Carter, Pradeep A. Dhillon, James Garrison, and Mathias Girel.
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