Intersections of Value
ISBN: 9780198789956
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy Aesthetics Moral Philosophy;

Robert Stecker investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience of the world around us. He examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. He explores the way the aesthetic interacts with moral, cognitive, and functional values, and he argues that the aesthetic must be understood in terms of a plurality of intersecting values. His account of aesthetic appreciation is thus complemented byanalyses of the cognitive and ethical value of art, the connection between environmental ethics and aesthetics, and the degree to which the aesthetic value of the everyday artefacts derives from theirbasic practical functions.

Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value (1996), Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech and the Law (2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2010). He is currently co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

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