Engagement Account of Aesthetic Value

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (1):91-93 (2023)
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Abstract

I propose an account of aesthetic value, where aesthetic value lies in the process of aesthetic engagement: in our activity of perceiving, guiding our attention, interpreting, and otherwise wrestling with aesthetic objects. It also includes our social activities of engagement: arguing with each other, writing criticism, making top-ten lists. (This is a short summary of a view developed in greater detail elsewhere.)

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Autonomy and aesthetic valuing.Nick Riggle - 2024 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (I):391-409.

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Games: Agency as Art.C. Thi Nguyen - 2020 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Games and the art of agency.C. Thi Nguyen - 2019 - Philosophical Review 128 (4):423-462.
Autonomy and Aesthetic Engagement.C. Thi Nguyen - 2019 - Mind 129 (516):1127-1156.
Aesthetic Concepts.Frank Sibley - 1959 - Philosophical Review 68 (4):421-450.

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