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Ananta Ch. Sukla
Book Code: C7394
ISBN: 0-275-97394-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97394-0
224 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/2003
List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [o]ffers a good cross-section of contemporary approaches. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.
    —Choice     November 2003
Description: In recent years, "experience" has been one of the most ambiguous, evasive, and controversial terms in myriad disciplines including epistemology, religion, literary theory, and philosophical aesthetics. Its association with the subjective consciousness has deprived it of the cognitive status of human knowledge. Art and Experience aims to grasp a firmer hold on this elusive concept, via essays written by a distinguished group of international scholars who have rediscovered the foundation of experience and restored its cognitive status in understanding our cultural activities. Indeed, emotions and experience play a vital role in human cognition, and the symbiotic relationship between culture and experience is a subject long overdue for further study. Clarifying the intricacies scholars face in understanding the concept of experience, this volume's broad approach makes it an invaluable contribution to the study of the humanities. Its uniqueness lies in its focusing on the manifold aspects of the concept rather than in drawing any singular, dogmatic conclusion about its nature and function.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Scientific Experience and Religious Experience by Keith Yandell
  • Close Reading, Distant Writing and the Experience of Language by John Llewelyn
  • Experiencing Nature and Experiencing Art by T. J. Diffey
  • Experiences as Art by Joseph Kupfer
  • Pictorial Experience by Richard Woodfield
  • The Aesthetic Experience of Literature and Its Cognitive Value
  • The Experience of Music by Stephen Davies
  • Cognitivism and the Experience and Experience of Dance by Graham McFee
  • Aesthetic Experience and Experience of Art and Nature: Arguments from Indian Aesthetics by Ananta Ch. Sukla
  • Capture and Line of Flight: The Experience of Photography and Film by John Carvalho
  • Objective Aesthetic Experiences by Peter McCormick
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002070869
LCC Class: BH39
Dewey Class: 111
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