Kant's aesthetic cognitivism : on the value of art /
Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of art. She does this through revisiting Kant's account of aesthetic ideas, and demonstrating how works of art can increase our understanding of abstr...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2023].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Aesthetic cognitivism in the arts
- Kant and art as expression of aesthetic ideas
- Artistic expression of aesthetic ideas and therapeutic self-knowledge
- Cognitive value of representational and non-representational art
- The aesthetic thesis of Kant's cognitivism
- Kant and aesthetic cognition
- Conclusion.