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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters by Robert E Innis

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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters by Robert E Innis

explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of these encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks. Practicing a kind of "method of rotation" Robert E. Innis breaks down barriers in aesthetic theory and shows their complementary powers. Recurring themes link each chapter, throwing a powerful light on aesthetic encounters by foregrounding such pivotal notions as play, fundedness and the role of memory, the defining quality of an artwork, energies of objects, potencies, rhythm, form, presentational abstraction, medium, symbolization, intuition, role of the body, and the non-argumentative nature of art.

"This work draws you in and builds in nothing less than a dramatic mannerInnis displays a stunning range of erudition and even when dealing with technical or intricate topics he remains accessible and, more than this, engaging and quite memorable." — Vincent Colapietro, Penn State University

Robert E. Innis is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and former Obel Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. His many books include Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology.

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ISBN 13 9781438488257
ISBN 10 1438488254
Title Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
Author Robert E Innis
Series Suny Series In American Philosophy And Cultural Thought
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher State University of New York Press
Year published 2022-04-01
Number of pages 214
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