Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect-how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at which, in our contemplation of a work of art, reaction and thought confront each other. For those trained in the visual arts and for more casual viewers, Figal unmasks art as a decentering experience that opens further possibilities for understanding our lives and our world.
| ISBN: | 9780253015587 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2015 |
| Author: | Günter Figal |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 292 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Continental Thought |
| Genres: |
Phenomenology and Existentialism Philosophy: aesthetics |