This essay is an interdisciplinary study of what is cognitively going on when we interpret, represent, or evaluate cultural entities, works of art included. In addition, the role of interpretation in experience and in cultural objects is elucidated from a cognitive point of view. The book relies on theories of action, perception, possible worlds, possibility and necessity, intentionality, cognition, and brain research.
It contains a number of examples confirming what is said in its theoretical parts. Joining theories and concrete examples yields new explanatory insights into some much-discussed aesthetic problems related to interpretation. One observation is that cognitive theories can be used to dissolve the disagreement about two philosophical traditions, analytic and continental.
| ISBN: | 9783631619131 |
| Publication date: | 14th October 2011 |
| Author: | Veikko Rantala |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Edition an imprint of Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 242 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Philosophy: aesthetics Educational: Arts, general Theory of art Philosophy of language Semiotics / semiology |
This essay is an interdisciplinary study of what is cognitively going on when we interpret, represent, or evaluate cultural entities, works of art included. In addition, the role of interpretation in experience and in cultural objects is elucidated from a cognitive point of view.
Aesthetic Tension features in the following genres: Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Philosophy: aesthetics, Educational: Arts, general, Theory of art, Philosophy of language, Semiotics / semiology
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Aesthetic Tension was written by Veikko Rantala and published by Peter Lang Edition an imprint of Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Aesthetic Tension has 242 pages