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Artistic creativity and the ideal of beauty : the representation of human beauty in Schopenhauer's philosophy of artIn David Bather Woods & Timothy Stoll (eds.), The Schopenhauerian mind, Routledge. 2023.
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3Schopenhauers pessimisme, de esthetische contemplatie en de waarde van de kunstAlgemeen 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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66The Sublime in Art: Kant, the Mannerist, and the Matterist SublimeJournal 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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5Introduction: Arthur SchopenhauerIn A Companion to Schopenhauer, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012.This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading.
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10Schopenhauer and the Objectivity of ArtIn A Companion to Schopenhauer, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012.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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7Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Understanding and the Values of ArtIn Robert Stern, Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Better Consciousness, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-02-19.This chapter contains sections titled: Schopenhauer's Platonism The Feeling of the Sublime The Values of Tragedy Concluding Remarks References.
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20Media processesEmpedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 3 (2): 117-118. 2011.
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Schopenhauer on aesthetic understanding and the values of artIn Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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5The sublime in Schopenhauer's philosophyPalgrave-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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8Aesthetic Disinterestedness in Kant and SchopenhauerEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 49 (1): 45. 2020.
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134Beauty, Disinterested Pleasure, and Universal Communicability: Kant’s Response to BurkeKant Studien 103 (2): 207-233. 2012.: 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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12"New" Media, Art, and Intercultural CommunicationJournal 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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404Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Aesthetically SublimeJournal 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
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68Aesthetic Disinterestedness in Kant and SchopenhauerEstetika: 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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74On the Notion of "Disinterestedness": Kant, Lyotard, and SchopenhauerJournal 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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7Why Share a Language or Tradition? Gadamer and Davidson in DisputeBudhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 16 (3): 1-21. 2012.
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247. Schopenhauer on Aesthetic ContemplationIn Matthias Koßler & Oliver Hallich (eds.), Arthur Schopenhauer: Die Welt Als Wille Und Vorstellung, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 101-118. 2014.
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De bloesem van het leven. Esthetiek en ethiek in Arthur Schopenhauers filosofieTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 64 (2): 384-387. 2002.
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20Nietzsche, Selfhood, and the Limitations of the Transcendental ReadingNietzsche Studien 44 (1). 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Nietzsche-Studien Jahrgang: 44 Heft: 1 Seiten: 315-339
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55"New" media, art, and intercultural communicationJournal 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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1Affect en contemplatie: De ambivalente positie van de muziek in Schopenhauers filosofieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 91 (3): 194-207. 1999.
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6Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman ParretJohn 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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34We weep but are not wounded. The sublime feeling in Schopenhauer's aestheticsTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 61 (4): 663-695. 1999.
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133Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Understanding and the Values of ArtEuropean 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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17Disinterested Pleasure and the Universal Voice of Beauty: Kant’s Response to BurkeIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 311-324. 2013.
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12Communication and memoryEmpedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 2 (1). 2011.
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13Shuddering with pleasure in hell. Ethical and tragic dimensions of the sublime feelingTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 63 (4): 719-750. 2001.