The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics: Cassirer, Crowther, and the Future

By Ioanna Kopsiafti and Elena Fell

Book Overview

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study. It innovatively seeks to correct the marginalization of aesthetics in analytical philosophy by reinterpreting aesthetic cognition through an integration of Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms with Paul Crowther's theory of imagination and philosophy of art.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138652148
• ISBN13: 9781138652149
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"