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873961
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Lopes, Dominic.
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Being for Beauty : : Aesthetic Agency and Value.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press USA - OSO,, 2018.
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1 online resource (283 pages)
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0191866091
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: 0192562118
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: 9780191866098
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: 9780192562111
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0198827210
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9780198827214
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; The Primitive Question; Beauty in Art; Aesthetic Value in Aesthetics; The Party Line; The Main Argument and Bonus Arguments; PART I; 1: Beings for Beauty; Six Snapshots; Six Explananda; 2: Getting Practical; Aesthetic Acts; Aesthetic Reasons; Two Questions about Aesthetic Value; Some Answers to the Aesthetic Question; How to Punt on the Aesthetic Question; Plain Vanilla Normativity; PART II; 3: To Seize upon the Applause of the Heart; Aesthetic Hedonism
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Basic NormativityTrue Judges; The Puzzle of Standardized Normativity; The Levinhume Deduction; From Masterworks to True Judges; The Problem Aesthetic Agents Face; Motivational Hedonism; 4: Six Degrees of Separation; The Explanatory Gap; Perverse Pleasures; Limited Aesthetic Agents; Aesthetic Personality; Cool Customers; PART III; 5: Strength and Warranties of Skill; Laying in a Course; Expert Performance; Core Aesthetic Competence; Aesthetic Meta-Competence; Evaluation Versus Appreciation; An Aesthetic Gerrymander; 6: Infrastructures of Aesthetic Agency
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Scaffolds, Constraints, and Rational ExplanationOut of the Aesthetic State of Nature; The Aesthetic Tower of Babel; Elements of Aesthetic Practices; Appendix: Structuralist Aesthetics; 7: Hundred Mile Aesthetics; The Network Theory; Sibleyan Shades of Value; Aesthetic Profiles; Valence; Core Aesthetic Norms; Plain Vanilla Aesthetic Normativity; Two Counterexamples; Explaining Local Aesthetic Expertise; PART IV; 8: By Happy Alchemy of Mind; Aesthetic Motives, Pure and Mixed; Aesthetic Indifference; The Blame Argument; Snobs: An Objection; Facilitating Pleasure; Pleasures and Motives
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The Aesthetic View from HereAesthetic Personality; Meaning; Happiness; Being for Beauty; 12: Building Better Aesthetic Agents; Aesthetic Policy and the Primitive Question; Aesthetic Goods as Public Goods; Aesthetic Opportunity; Arts Education for Aesthetic Opportunity; Communication Gateways; Social Intersections; List of Theses; Common Ground; Aesthetic Hedonism; The Network Theory; References; Index
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The Hedonic Function of Aesthetic Practices?The Practiced Eye: Aesthetic Appreciation; 9: Endless to Dispute; Both Sides Now; Data: Beyond Faultless Disagreement; The Relativist Challenge; Aesthetic Profiles in Perspective; Dynamic Consensus; Vulgar Relativism and the Limits of Aesthetic Disputes; 10: Beauty, Naturally; Aesthetics Meets Metaphysics; Aesthetic Normativity Naturalized; A Sibleyan Challenge; Grounding Naturalism; Aesthetic Values Naturalized; Anchoring Aesthetic Practices; Anthropocentric Aesthetics; PART V; 11: Getting Personal; Three Skeptics; The View from Aesthetic Nowhere?
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| Abstract
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For centuries, philosophers have identified beauty with what brings pleasure. Dominic McIver Lopes challenges this interpretation by offering an entirely new theory of beauty - that beauty engages us in action, in concert with others, in the context of social networks - and sheds light on why aesthetic engagement is crucial for quality of life.
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Metaphysics.
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| Dewey Classification
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111.85
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| LC Classification
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BH39
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