Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very different, and may be easier to tackle, if we clarify the assumptions they make about perception and about experiences in general.
The focus of Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is the concept of attention and the ways in which this concept and especially the distinction between distributed and focused attention can help us re-evaluate various key concepts and debates in aesthetics. Sometimes our attention is distributed in an unusual way: we are attending to one perceptual object but our attention is distributed across its various properties. This way of experiencing the world is special and it plays an important role in characterizing a number of phenomena associated with aesthetics. Some of these that the book talks about include picture perception and depiction, aesthetic experiences, formalism, the importance of uniqueness in aesthetics, and the history of vision debate.
But sometimes, in some aesthetic contexts, our attention is not at all distributed, but very much focused. Nanay closes his argument with an analysis of some paradigmatic aesthetic phenomena where our attention is focused: identification and engagement with fictional characters. And the conflict and interplay between distributed and focused attention is an important feature of many artworks.
Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor at the University of Antwerp, where he is also co-director of the Centre for Philosophical Psychology and Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. He is the author of Between Perception and Action (OUP, 2013) and the editor of Perceiving the World (OUP, 2010) and of Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception (Routledge, forthcoming). He has published more than 90 articles on various topics mainly in philosophy of mind and in aesthetics. He used to work as a film critic and served on the jury of various major international film festivals.
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评分说实话,这本书的阅读门槛并不低,它要求读者具备一定的哲学基础和耐心去跟随作者构建的逻辑迷宫。初读时,有那么几章,我不得不反复回溯,甚至需要借助一些辅助材料来理解其中那些晦涩的术语和复杂的句式结构。例如,作者对“在场性”和“缺席性”在当代媒介环境中的辩证分析,其深度和广度都超出了我的预期。然而,正是这种挑战性,使得最终的顿悟时刻显得格外珍贵和令人振奋。当那些原本看似孤立的概念突然串联起来,形成一个宏大的体系时,那种智力上的满足感是无与伦比的。它不是那种提供现成答案的读物,而更像是一位严厉的导师,不断地抛出尖锐的问题,直到你不得不自己去寻找那条通往清晰的道路。对于那些渴望深度思考和智力激荡的求知者而言,这本书无疑是极具价值的投资。
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