edited by OswaldHanfling Philosophical Aesthetics An Introduction ' Philosophical Aesthetics An Introduction Edited by Oswald Hanfling / 9 13 BLACKWELL The Open University Oxford UK & Cambridge USA Blackwell Publishers in Association with the Open University Copyright (G) 1992 The Open University First published 1992 Reprinted 1992, 1994 The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Blackwell Publishers 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, 0X4 1JF, UK 238 Main Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out. or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Philosophical aesthetics: an introduction / edited by Oswald Hanfline. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-631-18034-6—ISBN 0-631-18035-4 (pbk) 11.. AAeesstthheettiiccss.. I. Hanfling, Oswald. 91-27476 CIP This book forms part of an Open University course Philosophy of the Arts (AA301). For further information about this and other Open University Courses, please write to the Central Enquiry Service, The Open University, PO Box 71, Milton Kevnes MK7 6AG, UK. ■ y ' Typeset in 11 on Opt Times by Text Processing Services, The Open University Printed in Great Britain by T.J. Press Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall. This book is printed on acid-free paper. RFI MONT! 1NIVFRS1TYIIRRAHY Contents . Introduction vii PART ONE: WHAT IS ART? Essay One: The Problem of Definition 1 by Oswald Hanfling Essay Two: Aesthetic Qualities 41 by Oswald Hanfling Essay Three: The Ontology of Art 75 by Oswald Hanfling PART TWO: ART AND FEELING Essay Four: Aesthetic Experience 111 by Diane Collinson Essay Five: Art, Emotion and Expression 179 by Robert Wilkinson PART THREE: ART, WORLD AND SOCIETY Essay Six: Truth and Representation 239 by Rosalind Hursthouse Essay Seven: Art, Society and Morality 297 by Tom Sorell PART FOUR: ART AND VALUE Essay Eight: The Evaluation of Art 349 by Colin Lyas Essay Nine: Criticism and Interpretation 381 by Colin Lyas Essay Ten: Structuralism and Post-structuralism 405 by Stuart Sim Essay Eleven: Marxism and Aesthetics 441 by Stuart Sim Index 473 Acknowledgements Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this text: Auden, W.H. (1968) ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’ in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, Faber & Faber Ltd and Collected Poems edited by E. Mendelson, © 1940 and renewed 1968 by W.H. Auden, reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.; Levi- Strauss, C. (1970) The Raw and the Cooked, Jonathan Cape Ltd, Harper & Row Inc.; Gardner, H. (1972) ‘A Structural Analysis of the French Intellectual Tradition’ in The Quest for Mind, Coven¬ ture Ltd, reproduced by kind permission of Sigo Press; Larkin, P. ‘Love Songs in Age’ in The Less Deceived by permission of The Marvell Press, England; Segal, D.M. ‘The Connections between the Semantics and Formal Structure of a Text’ in Mythology, edited by P. Maranad, first appeared as ‘O svjazi semantiki teksta s ego formal’noj strukture’ in Poetica II, Varsovie (1966), pp. 15-44. VI