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Rob van Gerwen (1994)

Knowledge in Beauty.

An Introduction to Modern Aesthetics

(In Dutch)

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations of the Major Works

Introduction

Chapter I
A Rationalist Approach
1 A Rationalist Approach of Knowledge (Leibniz)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Substances and Perception
1.3 Knowledge
2 A Rationalist Aesthetics (Baumgarten)
2.1 A Rationalist Aesthetics
2.2 Sensuous Truth
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter II
Empiricist Approaches (Hume)
1 An Empiricist Approach of Knowledge
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Impressions and Ideas
1.3 Skepsis on Induction
2 A Sensualist Aesthetics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Emotions
2.3 The Objects
2.4 A 'Transparent' Awareness
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter III
The transcendental Approach (Kant)
1 The Transcendental Approach of Knowledge
1.1 Rationalism versus Empiricism
1.2 The Transcendental Legitimation of Knowledge
1.3 The Objectivity of our Knowledge
2 The Transcendental Approach of Aesthetics
2.1 The Antinomy of Taste
2.2 The Subjective Judgement of Taste Proper
2.3 The Free Play of the Cognitive Faculties is our Pleasure
2.4 Aesthetic Ideas, Art, and Genius
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter IV
The Dialectic Approach (Hegel)
1 A Dialectic Approach of Knowledge
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Knowledge as Subject
1.3 Knowledge as System
1.4 Realization of Spirit
2 A Dialectic Approach of Aesthetics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Discipline of Aesthetics
2.3 Art as presentation of the Idea
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter V
A Romanticist Approach (Schopenhauer)
1 A Romanticist Approach of Knowledge
1.1 Introduction: the Noumenal and Imagination
1.2 The World as Representation
1.3 The World as Will (the Noumenal)
2 A Romanticist Approach of Art
2.1 Art as the representation of Ideas
2.2 Music as an Entrance to the Noumenal
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter VI
Phenomenological Approaches
1 A Phenomenological Approach of Knowledge (Husserl)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Phenomenological Method
1.3 Ingarden's realist Phenomenology
2 A Phenomenological Aesthetics (Ingarden)
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Work of Art as an Intentional Object
2.3 The Aesthetic Experience
2.4 The Judgement of Taste
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter VII
A Hermeneutical Approach (Gadamer)
1 Hermeneutical and Epistemology
1.1 The Humanities
1.2 The Hermeneutical Experience
2 Hermeneutics and Aesthetics
2.1 Criticizing Subjectivism
2.2 The Work of Art as a Hermeneutical Object
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter VIII
A Critical Approach (Adorno)
1 A Critical Approach of Knowledge
1.1 Introduction: Adorno and Philosophical Predecessors
1.2 Negative Dialectics
2 A Critical Aesthetics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Dialectics of Enlightenment and Art
2.3 Modern Art
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter IX
Analytical Approaches
1 Analytical Approaches of Knowledge
1.1 Logical Empiricism
1.2 Meaning and Context
2 Analytical Approaches of Aesthetics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Reductionist Approaches
2.3 Experiential Approaches
3 Knowledge in Beauty
Chapter X
Conclusions
1 Knowledge and Legitimacy
1.1 Modern Philosophy
1.2 Nominalism, Idealism and Realism
2 The Aesthetic as an Antinomical Relativization
Notes
Literature
Index

 

The investigations were supported by the Foundation for Philosophical Research (SWON), which is subsidized by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

© Rob van Gerwen