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Nelson Goodman and the Case for a Kalological Aesthetics

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  • © 2008

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  1. Nikolaos Gkogkas
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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Questions in Aesthetics

    • Nikolaos Gkogkas
    Pages 1-90

  3. Aesthetics and Understanding

    • Nikolaos Gkogkas
    Pages 91-113

  4. Aesthetics and Kalology

    • Nikolaos Gkogkas
    Pages 114-138

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 139-163
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Based on Nelson Goodman's conception of language and of pragmatically inherited meaning, this book looks at the arts as systems of particular symbols. The author offers an approach to kalology as a metaphysical implication of symbological functioning.

About the author

T. J. DIFFEY is Emeritus Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. He has taught on aesthetics, ethics, utopias and dystopias, art and society. He was editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics , and he has served as a member of the editorial boards of various scholarly journals.

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