The dissertation A Broad Aesthetic: beauty, truth, and goodness , takes into consideration three distinct but related aspects of aesthetics: perception, appreciation, and evaluation (beauty, truth, and goodness respectively). A central concern in an avowedly broad aesthetics is to attend, equally, to the bounds of the experiences or activities under consideration. Hence, this dissertation is a exploration of the breadth, but also of the limits, of certain aesthetic experiences and art-based activities (e.g., the appreciation and evaluation of artworks). It is a consideration of what shapes these experiences, and, also of the delimitation of these experiences and activities. Section one (beauty) considers the nature of aesthetic perception, and the limits of its reach. Section two (truth), looks at the role of style, both its scope and limit, in the classification and appreciation of a certain genre of fine writing (philosophy), as well as a certain genre of filmmaking (the documentary). Section three (goodness) looks at the role and relevance of moral values and interests in the evaluation, as well as in the curation, of artworks.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.84542 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Risser, Rita |
| Contributors | Davies, D. (advisor), Stroud, S. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Philosophy.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002151570, proquestno: AAINQ98358, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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