Essays about: "disinterestedness"
Found 4 essays containing the word disinterestedness.
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1. The Aesthetics of Self-Giving
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : We are used to regarding aesthetic experience from the point of view of a spectator, rather than something we actively provide and give. It is not common in the aesthetic debate to analyse what it is like to offer an aesthetic experience, but it is rather the opposite. READ MORE
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2. Proper Emotions and Aesthetic Interest: : Examining the role of Desires in Experiences of Beauty
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetikAbstract : Recently, Kant's concept of aesthetic disinterestedness has been called into question (see Nehamas 2007, Riggle 2016). Both texts provide insight into the ways in which experiences of beauty are interested. That said, the precise relationship between beauty and the desires, which is at the core of aesthetic interest as a concept, remains elusive. READ MORE
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3. On the Essence of Aesthetic Attention
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : Bence Nanay holds, that attention which is focused on one object, and distributed acrossits properties, gives rise to disinterestedness in phenomenal experience, and it therefore is involved in the occurence of the most paradigmatic kind of aesthetic experience.It is for this reason, that Nanay defines this sort of attention as "aesthetic attention". READ MORE
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4. Infinite surface : An extended reflection on the estrangement of the modern subject
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : This work is a string of essays that aesthetically frames estrangement as the quintessential experience of modern culture. Accordingly, detachment and distance are themes that persist throughout these essays. They weave their way through the cultural, social, psychological, and spatial dimensions of modern life, but at a tentative remove. READ MORE
