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64The art of distancing: How formal devices manage our emotional responses to literatureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62 (2). 2004.
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45Bob Solomon and William James: A RapprochementEmotion Review 2 (1): 53-60. 2010.Bob Solomon used to inveigh against William James’ theory of emotions, but he eventually arrived at a rapprochement with James and James’s recent successors. In particular, James suggested that emotions are initiated by the “automatic, instinctive” appraisals that register important information in the body and are recorded by body-mapping brain areas. In recent work Solomon describes the judgments he thinks constitute emotions as felt bodily appraisals in similar fashion
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28Review of Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (2). 2007.
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53General and individual style in literatureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 (2): 147-158. 1984.
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495Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and ArtClarendon Press. 2005.Jenefer Robinson takes the insights of modern scientific research on the emotions and uses them to illuminate questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Laying out a theory of emotion supported by the best evidence from current empirical work, she examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the emotions and how they work, as well as anyone engaged with th…Read more
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90Savoring Disgust: The Foul and Fair in Aesthetics, by Carolyn Korsmeyer (review)Mind 122 (486). 2013.
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93Aesthetic Disgust?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 75 51-84. 2014.In paragraph 48 of the Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant claimed that ‘only one kind of ugliness cannot be represented in accordance with nature without destroying all aesthetic satisfaction, hence artistic beauty, namely that which arouses disgust.’ However, from Baudelaire to Damien Hirst, there have been artists who delight in arousing disgust through their works, and many of these disgusting works, such as Baudelaire's Une Charogne, have high aesthetic merit. In her splendid new book, Savo…Read more
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117Bob Solomon’s Legacy: IntroductionEmotion Review 2 (1): 3-4. 2010.Bob Solomon used to inveigh against William James’ theory of emotions, but he eventually arrived at a rapprochement with James and James’s recent successors. In particular, James suggested that emotions are initiated by the “automatic, instinctive” appraisals that register important information in the body and are recorded by body-mapping brain areas. In recent work Solomon describes the judgments he thinks constitute emotions as felt bodily appraisals in similar fashion.
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254Music & meaning (edited book)Cornell University Press. 1997.In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music,..
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54Women, Morality, and FictionHypatia 5 (2): 76-90. 1990.We apply Carol Gilligan's distinction between a "male" mode of moral reasoning, focussed on justice, and a "female" mode, focussed on caring, to the reading of literature. Martha Nussbaum suggests that certain novels are works of moral philosophy. We argue that what Nussbaum sees as the special ethical contribution of such novels is in fact training in the stereotypically female mode of moral concern. We show this kind of training is appropriate to all readers of these novels, not just to women.…Read more
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4Emotional Responses to Music: What are they? How do they work? And are they relevant to aesthetic appreciation?In Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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4Catherine Z. Elgin, With Reference to Reference Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (1): 22-24. 1984.
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93Shostakovich's tenth symphony and the musical expression of cognitively complex emotionsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (4): 401-415. 1995.
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10Philosophies of Arts: An Essay in DifferencesPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 138. 2000.There are few writers on philosophical aesthetics who are such a pleasure to read as Peter Kivy, so a new book by him is always reason for celebration. In this latest volume all the Kivy virtues are on display: clear, careful argument and good sense, conveyed in an urbane and conversational style. The main theme of the book is that aestheticians have spent too much time discussing general theories of art that emphasize what the various art forms have in common, and not enough time examining the …Read more
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236Languages of art at the turn of the centuryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 213-218. 2000.
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27Deeper than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music, and ArtJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (2): 283-285. 2006.
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102Review of Charles O. Nussbaum, The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (3). 2009.
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10Expressing the Way the World Is: Expression as ReferenceThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 13 (1): 29. 1979.
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168The expression and arousal of emotion in musicJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (1): 13-22. 1994.
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