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The future of aesthetics : the 1996 Ryle lectures
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"Addressing the nature and prospects of aesthetics as a discipline, Sparshott discusses beauty, taste, and the place of imagination, fiction, and fine art in societies. He investigates the place of...
"Addressing the nature and prospects of aesthetics as a discipline, Sparshott discusses beauty, taste, and the place of imagination, fiction, and fine art in societies. He investigates the place of the discipline in the broad social structures provided by universities and civilizations, and tackles many perennially interesting questions about education and the life of the mind."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Francis Sparshott
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- English
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998
- ISBNs
- 1442681314, 9780802044266, 9786612036996, 9781442681316, 0802044263, 1282036998
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- ocn944177348, ocn244766578, ocm39355009, ocn815768957
- Based on the 1996 Ryle lectures, delivered at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont., on Mar. 11-14, 1996.
- I. Aesthetics and the Future of Philosophy. The Power of Beauty -- II. Philosophy and the Future of the University. The Map of Knowledge -- III. The University and the Future of Civilization. The Logic of Criticism -- IV. Civilization and the Future of Aesthetics