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Process and Aesthetics

An Outline of Whiteheadian Aesthetics and Beyond
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Process and Aesthetics delves into the intricate relationship between dynamic processes in philosophy and aesthetics. The authors explore how aesthetic experience can be understood through various transformative processes, engaging with themes that bridge the conceptual with the perceivable. The book offers an insightful analysis into how these processes influence our understanding of beauty and art in everyday life, reflecting on both the philosophical and psychological dimensions.
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A groundbreaking analysis of Alfred North Whitehead’s thinking on aesthetics.

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A groundbreaking analysis of Alfred North Whitehead’s thinking on aesthetics.

Though philosopher Alfred North Whitehead did not dedicate any books or articles specifically to aesthetics, aesthetic motifs nonetheless permeate his entire body of work. Despite this, aestheticians have devoted little attention to Whitehead.

In Process and Aesthetics, four scholars of aesthetics provide another angle from which Whiteheadian aesthetics might be reconstructed. Paying special attention to the notion of aesthetic experience, the authors analyze abstraction versus concreteness, immediacy versus mediation, and aesthetic contextualism versus aesthetic isolationism.

The concepts of creativity and rhythm are crucial to their interpretation of Whiteheadian aesthetics. Using these concepts, the book interprets the motif of the processes by which experience is harmonized, the sensation of the quality of the whole, and directedness towards novelty.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788024647265

Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2021

Country: Czechia

Imprint: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic

Edition: New edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 146.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 172

About the Author

Ondrej Dadejik is assistant professor of aesthetics at Charles University and the University of Southern Bohemia. Martin Kaplicky is assistant professor of aesthetics at Charles University and the University of Southern Bohemia. He also teaches at DAMU, the Theatre Faculty of Prague's Academy of Performing Arts. Milos Sevcik is head of the aesthetics department at Charles University. Vlastimil Zuska is professor of phenomenology and aesthetics at Charles University.

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