Essays about: "Aesthetic judgment"

Found 4 essays containing the words Aesthetic judgment.

  1. 1. Aesthetic injustice

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Jessica Rodarte; [2023]
    Keywords : Aesthetic injustice; potential aesthetic agents; testimonial aesthetic injustice; hermeneutical aesthetic injustice; aesthetic dysfunction.;

    Abstract :   I argue that talking about aesthetic injustice implies reflection about some failures on the exercise of aesthetic judgment due to mechanisms of oppression, which have a negative impact on the development of potential aesthetic agents.  I claim that mechanisms of oppression like aesthetic identity prejudice, oppression or lack of recognition of sensitivities, and aesthetic dysfunctionality in sites of enunciation continue undermining the degree of validation of potential aesthetic agents - who mostly belong to historical oppressed groups like women, black people, indigenous, native Americans, among others. READ MORE

  3. 2. The non-dual and interconnected nature of aesthetic judgments

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Author : Josua Li; [2022]
    Keywords : Aesthetic judgment; Dualism; Non-dualism; Aesthetics; Zen; Buddhism; Dogen; Interconnectedness; Centrism; Enlightenment;

    Abstract : This thesis explores what an aesthetic judgment would be if we take existence to be non-duallyinterconnected. Interconnectedness and aesthetic judgment does not seem to be compatible becauseaesthetic judgment seems to depend on, at least, the dualism of the beautiful and the ugly and that ofsubject and object. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Wild and the Beautiful : Aetiology and awareness in the aesthetics of nature

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Author : Una Thorlaksdottir; [2021]
    Keywords : Nature; aesthetics; beauty; wilderness; environmental aesthetics; environmental ethics; Natur; estetik; skönhet; vildmark; miljöestetik; miljöetik;

    Abstract : In this paper I argue that aesthetic appreciation of nature should be reflective and based on respect for nature. I believe first-hand experience is crucial and that nature can be aesthetically experienced freely in a multi-sensory way. READ MORE

  5. 4. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Andria Nyberg Forshage; [2015]
    Keywords : aesthetics; becoming; erasure; excessive object; feminine sublime; feminist aesthetics; literary theory; monstrosity; sublimity; transgender theory; trans women s writing; transmisogyny; unrepresentability;

    Abstract : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). READ MORE