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    Schopenhauers pessimisme, de esthetische contemplatie en de waarde van de kunst
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 115 (4): 377-390. 2023.
    Schopenhauer’s pessimism, aesthetic contemplation and the value of art According to Schopenhauer, the aesthetic contemplation of art temporarily offers some kind of redemption: art is valuable because of its liberating effect on the spectator’s will, i.e. his or her urges, strivings and desires. He also acknowledges that works of art have cognitive value, since they offer insight into timeless Platonic Ideas. I argue that Schopenhauer is right to acknowledge the cognitive value of art, but that …Read more
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    The Sublime in Art: Kant, the Mannerist, and the Matterist Sublime
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 49 (3): 32-49. 2015.
    Numerous contemporary artworks are found repellent, even by genuine art lovers, either because they deliberately derange our perception and imagination by an abundance of incoherent representations and stimuli or because they demand that we value seemingly nonsensical objects or all kinds of disgusting materials. Installations, collages, and so-called unassisted ready-mades especially cannot count on too much appreciation, unless the artists in question are sufficiently supported by clever manag…Read more
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Will‐Lessness, Science and Art Art, Objectivity and Death Objective Knowledge of (Platonic) Ideas Tragic Art, Concerned Individuals and the Objective Stance The Objectivity of Art and the Abolition of the Self Note References Further Reading.
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    Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Understanding and the Values of Art
    In Robert Stern, Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Better Consciousness, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Schopenhauer's Platonism The Feeling of the Sublime The Values of Tragedy Concluding Remarks References.
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    Media processes
    with Johan Siebers, Tino Meitz, Vincenzo Romania, and Vincent Blok
    Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 3 (2): 117-118. 2011.
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    The sublime in Schopenhauer's philosophy
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2015.
    The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology. Bart Vandenabeele breaks new ground by providing what is probably the first monograph to be devoted exclusively to Schopenhauer's theory of the sublime. The book focuses on Schopenhauer's conception of the sublime and how it relates to the individual and its attitude towards life. The author explores in unusual depth Schopenhauer's relation to Kant, whose follower and critic he wa…Read more
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    Aesthetic Disinterestedness in Kant and Schopenhauer
    Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 49 (1): 45. 2020.
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    : Although Kant holds that the universal communicability of aesthetic judgments logically follows from the disinterested character of the pleasure upon which they are based, Kant’s emphasis on the a priori validity of judgments of beauty can be viewed as a rebuttal of the kind of empiricist arguments that Burke offers to justify the social nature of the experience of beauty. I argue that the requirement of universal communicability is not a mere addition to the requirement of universal validity …Read more
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    "New" Media, Art, and Intercultural Communication
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 38 (4): 1. 2004.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:"New" Media, Art, and Intercultural CommunicationBart Vandenabeele (bio)It is fairly common — but perhaps not altogether innocent — to avoid addressing new media and intercultural aspects of communication in one and the same essay. Here, however, both issues are treated together. I shall investigate, in a perhaps somewhat unusual way, the phenomenon of "new" artistic media and some related issues such as virtual reality, computer and…Read more
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    Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Aesthetically Sublime
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 37 (1): 90. 2003.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Journal of Aesthetic Education 37.1 (2003) 90-106 [Access article in PDF] Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Aesthetically Sublime Bart Vandenabeele Much has been written on the relationship between Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. Much remains to be said, however, concerning their respective theories of the sublime. First, I shall argue against the traditional, dialectical view of Schopenhauer's theory of the sublime t…Read more
  • The Blackwell Companion to Schopenhauer (edited book)
    Blackwell. 2012.
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    Aesthetic Disinterestedness in Kant and Schopenhauer
    Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 49 (1): 45-70. 2012.
    While several commentators agree that Schopenhauer’s theory of ‘will-less contemplation’ is a variant of Kant’s account of aesthetic disinterestedness, I shall argue here that Schopenhauer’s account departs from Kant’s in several important ways, and that he radically transforms Kant’s analysis of aesthetic judgement into a novel aesthetic attitude theory. In the first part of the article, I critically discuss Kant’s theory of disinterestedness, pay particular attention to rectifying a common mis…Read more
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    On the Notion of "Disinterestedness": Kant, Lyotard, and Schopenhauer
    Journal of the History of Ideas 62 (4): 705-720. 2001.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 62.4 (2001) 705-720 [Access article in PDF] On the Notion of "Disinterestedness": Kant, Lyotard, and Schopenhauer Bart Vandenabeele The strange thing, on looking back, was the purity, the integrity, of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man. It was completely disinterested, and besides, it had a quality which could only exist between women, between women just grown up.--Virginia…Read more
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    7. Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Contemplation
    In Matthias Koßler & Oliver Hallich (eds.), Arthur Schopenhauer: Die Welt Als Wille Und Vorstellung, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 101-118. 2014.
  • De bloesem van het leven. Esthetiek en ethiek in Arthur Schopenhauers filosofie
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 64 (2): 384-387. 2002.
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    Nietzsche, Selfhood, and the Limitations of the Transcendental Reading
    with Violi Sahaj
    Nietzsche Studien 44 (1). 2015.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Nietzsche-Studien Jahrgang: 44 Heft: 1 Seiten: 315-339
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    Strelend wonden helen: over Hadewych, erotiek en esthetiek
    de Uil Van Minerva 13 89-95. 1996.
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    "New" media, art, and intercultural communication
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 38 (4): 1-9. 2004.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:"New" Media, Art, and Intercultural CommunicationBart Vandenabeele (bio)It is fairly common — but perhaps not altogether innocent — to avoid addressing new media and intercultural aspects of communication in one and the same essay. Here, however, both issues are treated together. I shall investigate, in a perhaps somewhat unusual way, the phenomenon of "new" artistic media and some related issues such as virtual reality, computer and…Read more
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    Affect en contemplatie: De ambivalente positie van de muziek in Schopenhauers filosofie
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 91 (3): 194-207. 1999.
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    Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret
    with Frank Brisard, Herman Parret, and Michael Meeuwis
    John Benjamins. 2004.
    This volume unites various contributions reflecting the intellectual interests exhibited by Professor Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven), who has continued to observe, and often critically assess, ongoing developments in pragmatics throughout his career. In fact, Parret's contributions to philosophical and empirical/linguistic pragmatics present substantive proposals in the epistemics of communication, while simultaneously offering meta-comments on the ideological premises of extant…Read more
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    Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Understanding and the Values of Art
    European Journal of Philosophy 16 (2): 194-210. 2008.
    The article explores German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's view on aesthetics and the values of art. It contends that some important aspects of Schopenhauer's discussion of tragedy indicate that the theory that the value of art is deductible to the aesthetic pleasure it affords is inadequate. Moreover, it claims that Schopenhauer attaches great importance to the distinction between concept and idea. It also asserts that Schopenhauer's account of aesthetic experience is inspired by Plato's ide…Read more
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    Communication and memory
    with Johan Siebers, Mats Bergman, and Vincenzo Romania
    Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 2 (1). 2011.
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    No need for essences. On non-verbal communication in first inter-cultural contacts
    South African Journal of Philosophy 21 (2): 85-96. 2002.
    Drawing on anthropological examples of first contacts between people from different cultures, I argue that non-verbal communication plays a far bigger part in intercultural communication than has been acknowledged in the literature so far. Communication rests on mutually attuning in a large number of judgements. Some sort of structuring principle is needed at this point, and Davidson's principle of charity is a good candidate, provided sufficient attention is given to non-verbal communication. T…Read more