Aesthetics

Keyword: Aesthetics


Article in Journal | Posted 26/06/2018
Neville, Robert C. (2018). Peirce and Confucianism on the Fallibility of Immediate Aesthetic Intuition
This essay affirms both Peirce’s insistence that all experience is interpretive and fallible and the Confucian aesthetic theory that stresses the immediacy of aesthetic experience. Can the immediacy...
Article in Journal | Posted 02/02/2018
Tejera, Victorino (1993). Peirce's Semeiotic, and the Aesthetics of Literature
Focuses on the aesthetics of literature. Discussion on the axiological matrix of logic as semeiotic; Relations between aesthetics and semeiotic; Information on phaneroscopy.
Monograph | Posted 26/01/2018
Guardiano, Nicholas (2017). Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real,...

Article in Journal | Posted 17/08/2017
Barrena, Sara (2014). Charles S. Peirce in Europe: The “Aesthetic Letters”
While Peirce claimed that he was not well acquainted with aesthetics, he always was interested in that field. In spite of the fact that Peirce did not develop the issue in depth, aesthetics is...
Article in Journal | Posted 09/12/2015
Kaag, John J. (2015). The Lot of the Beautiful: Pragmatism and Aesthetic Ideals
This article focuses on the intimate relationship between German aesthetic theory, particularly the philosophies of Kant and Schiller, and the pragmatic tradition of the nineteenth and early...
Monograph | Posted 23/12/2014
Ehrat, Johannes (2005). Cinema & Semiotic: Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation
News | Posted 14/05/2014
Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics: Critical Perspectives on the Arts

This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 17/12/2012
Chiasson, Phyllis: "Abduction as an Aspect of Retroduction"

One of the most intriguing mysteries in American philosophy falls under the question: “Just what does Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of abductive reasoning comprise?” Peirce used the terms “...