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52Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine: Book Reviews (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2): 233-235. 2008.
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52Making Sense of Taste: Food and PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59 (4): 421-423. 2001.
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50Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco (edited book)Routledge. 2002.First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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47The Compass in the EyeThe Monist 76 (4): 508-523. 1993.“Of all the fine arts, drawing is indisputably the most useful, the most positive, and the most capable of practical application,” declared Sigismond Schuster, author of one of the many popular drawing books of the nineteenth century. “It might in this respect be classed rather among the useful than the ornamental arts, for it is the basis of them all, and is an indispensable auxiliary to every mechanic. Drawing is the language of nature and of the imagination; it secures ease and steadiness to …Read more
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46Making sense of taste: food & philosophyCornell University Press. 1999.Korsmeyer (philosophy, State U. of New York-Buffalo) disagrees with the centuries of philosophers before her that taste is beneath the dignity of the field. She explores how it gained such a low esteem, parallels between notions of aesthetic and gustatory taste, how the sense works scientifically, the multiple components of the experience, its various meanings in art and literature, and its sacred dimension. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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44The meaning of taste Andi the taste of meaningIn Alex Neill & Aaron Ridley (eds.), Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, Routledge. pp. 30. 2008.
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41Making Sense of Taste: Food and PhilosophyCornell University Press. 1999.Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience, and they continually inspire writers and artists. In Making Sense of Taste, Carolyn Korsmeyer explains how taste came to occupy so low a place in the hierarchy of senses and why it is deserving of gr…Read more
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39Feminist AestheticsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2021.Overview essay of the field of feminist aesthetics updated Winter, 2021.
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36Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials: Philosophical Perspectives on Artifacts and Memory (edited book)Taylor & Francis. 2019.This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past. The recent destruction of cultural heritage in war and controversies over Civil War monuments in the US have foregrounded the importance of artifacts that embody history. The book invites us to ask: How do memorials convey their meanings? What is our responsibility for the preservation or reconstruction of historically significant structures? How should we respond…Read more
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34AESTHETICS: Perceptions, Pleasures, Arts: Considering AestheticsIn Janet A. Kourany (ed.), Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, Princeton University Press. pp. 145-172. 1997.
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29The Triumph of Time: Romanticism ReduxJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (4): 429-435. 2014.
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24The two beauties: A perspective on Hutcheson's aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38 (2): 145-151. 1979.
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24Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (4): 383-384. 1991.
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20Things: In Touch with the PastOup Usa. 2019.Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property.
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20On Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: in touch with the past Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 224Studi di Estetica 19. 2021.
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18On Distinguishing "Aesthetic" from "Artistic"The Journal of Aesthetic Education 11 (4): 45. 1977.
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17Gut appreciation: possibilities for aesthetic disgustLebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 3 186-199. 2013.Although the arousal of disgust is now widely acknowledged to be an appropriate response to certain works of art, controversy remains regarding whether to consider this emotion an actual zone of appreciative enjoyment. This paper presents several solutions to the so-called paradox of aversion and argues for a brand of aesthetic disgust that produces an experience that can be savored despite its difficult and unpleasant qualities.
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15Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on FictionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 46 (1): 90-91. 1987.
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15IntroductionThe Monist 101 (3): 235-236. 2018.This special issue of The Monist on food adds to the growing number of philosophical treatments of food, drink, the sense of taste, and the activity of eating. Indeed, the last two decades have witnessed a burgeoning theoretical literature on these subjects. This issue not only continues the conversations already begun, but also offers some innovative speculations about how the discussion might continue. Thus the reader will find here perspectives both familiar and novel.
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14Feminism and Traditional AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (4): 277-428. 1990.This is the first feminist special issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Introduction written by Brand [Weiser] and Korsmeyer with essays by Hilde Hein, Paul Mattick, Jr., Timothy Gould, Joanne B. Waugh, Joseph Margolis, Mary Devereaux, Noel Carroll, Flo Leibowitz, Anita Silvers, Elizabeth Ann Dobie, Renee Cox, and Ellen Handler Spitz. A fuller publication from Indiana University Press followed in 1995 edited by Brand [Weiser] and Korsmeyer entitled, Feminism and Tradition in Aes…Read more
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14Instruments of the eye: Shortcuts to perspectiveJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2): 139-146. 1989.
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