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Author Isenberg, Arnold.

Title Aesthetics and the theory of criticism : selected essays of Arnold Isenberg / edited by William Callaghan ... [and others] ; with an introduction by Mary Mothersill and a biographical sketch by William Callaghan
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1973

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Description xxxix, 322 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
Contents Aesthetics: Music and ideas. Formalism. Perception, meaning, and the subject matter of art. The technical factor in art. The aesthetic function of language. The problem of belief. On defining metaphor.--Criticism: Cordelia absent. A poem by Frost and some principles of criticism. Critical communication. "Pretentious" as an aesthetic predicate. Superlatives. Some problems of interpretation.--Ethics and moral psychology: Natural pride and natural shame. Deontology and the ethics of lying. Ethical and aesthetic criticsm.--Appendices (p. [283]-316).--A. Analytical philosophy and the study of art.--B. Notebooks and letters
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Isenberg, Arnold.
Aesthetics.
Criticism.
Author Callaghan, William.
Mothersill, Mary.
LC no. 73077133
ISBN 0226385116