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George Thomas Dickie (12 August 1926 – March 24, 2020) was an American philosopher. He was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago . [ 2 ] His specialities included aesthetics , philosophy of art , and Eighteenth Century theories of taste .
The theory of art is also impacted by a philosophical turn in thinking, not only exemplified by the aesthetics of Kant but is tied more closely to ontology and metaphysics in terms of the reflections of Heidegger on the essence of modern technology and the implications it has on all beings that are reduced to what he calls 'standing reserve ...
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (/ b ɑː ˈ t aɪ /; French: [ʒɔʁʒ batɑj]; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art.
Collingwood is widely noted for The Idea of History (1946), which was collated from various sources soon after his death by a student, T. M. Knox.It came to be a major inspiration for philosophy of history in the English-speaking world and is extensively cited, leading to an ironic remark by commentator Louis Mink that Collingwood is coming to be "the best known neglected thinker of our time". [6]
Lectures on Aesthetics (LA; German: Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik, VÄ) is a compilation of notes from university lectures on aesthetics given by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Heidelberg in 1818 and in Berlin in 1820/21, 1823, 1826 and 1828/29.
George Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i / BARK-lee; [5] [6] 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).
A visitor reads a poem displayed at a new exhibit, “Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix,” at Arizona State University Art Museum, in Tempe, Arizona on Friday ...
Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, 1981; Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, 1990; Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts, 1990; Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, 1992/2000