Towards a Pragmatist Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9466592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erlend Lavik (0000-0002-5599-9558, Erlend LavikUniversity of Bergen , Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 453-474 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayab058 |
| OpenAlex | W4234134766 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In this paper, I make the case that the tradition of pragmatism may usefully inform aesthetic criticism. To that end, I contrast the anti-essentialist outlook and the ethico-political concerns of neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty with the epistemological underpinnings of analytic aesthetics. The aim is to outline an alternative meta-theoretical perspective that ‘overwrites’ long-standing concerns with exactitude and objectivity. Drawing on examples from my own area of expertise, film, and television studies, I seek to explicitly set up aesthetic criticism, especially evaluation, as a means of social progress and human flourishing within the framework of liberal democracy
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Democracy · Epistemology · Essentialism · Flourishing · Literature · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Social criticism · Sociology · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |