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12Foreword to Beauty UnlimitedIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. 2013.Whatever approach one favors, the relationships between the most abstract and disembodied sense of beauty and the physical, erotic sense are clearly harder to sever than many philosophers have previously realized. The soul may be glad to forget its connection with the body, as Santayana put it, but that gladness indicates that the connection is there to be forgotten in the first place. And often it is not so much forgotten as reshaped and transfigured. Such transformations are explored here with…Read more
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11What Beauty Promises:: SymposiumBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (2): 193-198. 2010.Alexander Nehamas calls beauty a ‘promise of happiness’ and claims that it is an object of love. While this approach appealingly places beauty at the center of both artistic passion and everyday life, it also renders it riskily personal. This discussion raises two main questions to Nehamas. The first question regards the role of happiness in the concept of beauty, for many beautiful artworks seem to acknowledge the inevitability of sorrow rather than its opposite. The second question concerns ho…Read more
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11Terrible BeautiesIn Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Blackwell. pp. 51--63. 2006.
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11Response to Currie and Robson, “Authenticity and Implicature”Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (3): 392-395. 2023.
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11Disputing tasteThe Philosophers' Magazine 45 70-76. 2009.The sense of taste falls low on the hierarchy of the senses because it seems a poor conduit for knowledge of the external world; it directs attention inward rather than outward; its pleasures are sensuous and bodily, prone to overindulgence that distracts from higher human endeavours; and its objects are at best merely pleasant, not of the highest aesthetic value. Such is the traditional assessment; now let us analyse its justice.
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9Special Issue of HypatiaHypatia 48 (4). 1990.This special issue was the first philosophy journal issue in English devoted to feminist perspectives in aesthetics. It was prompted by more than two decades of feminist scholarship in all academic disciplines that challenged the operations of gender in research and theory, prompting widespread examination of disciplinary assumptions and methods, new understandings of the histories of fields and their classic texts, and refinement of awareness of how scholarship retains gender bias. An expanded …Read more
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7Staying in touchIn Garry Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Three Examples Sameness of Experience Touch, Contact, Nearness, Presence Wright's Windows.
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7Aesthetics: Feminism's Hidden ImpactApa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 13 (1): 8-11. 2013.I suspect that feminism in general has had an impact on philosophy at large that is seldom explicitly recognized as such, insofar as it has prompted the field to consider topics that previously were only scantily recognized for their philosophical interest.
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5Gender and aesthetics: an introductionRoutledge. 2004.This fully illustrated introductory text looks at the key theories and thinkers within art from a philosophical viewpoint. Focusing on the role gender plays, the book covers the most pertinent topics within feminist aesthetics.
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5Beauty UnlimitedIndiana University Press. 2012.Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume. This striking and provocative book explores the history of bodily beautification; the physicality of socially or culturally determined choices of beautification; the interplay of gender, race, cla…Read more
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56 Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a TasteIn Eva Kit Wah Man & Jeffrey Petts (eds.), Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living, Amsterdam University Press. pp. 125-138. 2023.
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5Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds., The expanding discourse: Feminism and art historyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (4): 628-629. 1993.
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3Marianna Torgovnick, The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and The Novel: James, Lawrence, and WoolfJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 44 (4): 412-413. 1986.
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3Reason and Morals in the Early Feminist Movement: Mary WollstonecraftPhilosophical Forum 5 (1): 97. 1973.
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3Joseph H. Kupfer, Experience As Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (6): 266-267. 1984.
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2Gendered Concepts and Hume's Standard of TasteIn Peg Zeglin Brand Weiser & Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds.), Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 49-65. 1995.Feminist scholarship has awakened us to the suspicion that such reliance on "common human nature" renders philosophical concepts not neutral and universal, as Hume believed, but heavily inflected by models of ideal masculinity that inform discussions of human nature. One purpose of this essay is to extend this line of thought by elucidating the idea of gendered concepts. By this phrase I refer to concepts that, lacking any obvious reference to males or females, or to masculinity or femininity, n…Read more
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2Rita Felski, Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (12): 489-492. 1990.
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2TasteIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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Joseph H. Kupfer, Experience As Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life (review)Philosophy in Review 4 266-267. 1984.
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Aesthetic Concepts |
Aesthetics and Emotions |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |
Aesthetic Concepts |
Aesthetics and Emotions |