TY  - GEN
AU  - Parsons, Glenn
AU  - Carlson, Allen 
TI  - Functional beauty
SN  - 9780199659319
U1  - 701.17 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon Press
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Functional Beauty in the Aesthetic Tradition
i i Beauty as Fitness in Classical Thought
Beauty and Function in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Eighteenth-Century Decline: Burke's Counter-Examples
The Eighteenth-Century Decline: Reason and
Perception	18
The Eighteenth-Century Decline: Kant
and Beauty 'Apart from Concepts'	21
The Autonomy of Art	24
2. Functional Beauty in Contemporary
Aesthetic Theory	31
The Decline of Disinterestedness
and the Rise of Cultural Theories
of Appreciation	32
Art, Nature, and Afunctionality	37
Architecture and Functionalism	42
The Problem of Translation	45
The Problem of Indeterminacy	49
A Role for Functional Beauty	57
3. Indeterminacy and the Concept of Function
Intentionalism and Indeterminacy
Naturalizing Function
Artefact Selection and Proper Function
The Problem of Novel Artefacts
Indeterminacy and Functional Beauty
4.Function and Form
Knowledge of Function
The Phenomenology of Functional Beauty
Is 'Looking Fit' an Aesthetic Quality?
Utility and Beauty
The Aesthetics of Dysfunction
5.Nature and Environment
The Appreciation of Living Nature
The Immorality Objection
Function and the Beauty of Organisms
Function in the Landscape
Looking Dysfunctional and Positive Aesthetics
6. Architecture and the Built Environment	137
The Case for Functional Beauty
in Architecture	138
The Function of a Building: The Problem of
Indeterminacy	143
Functional Beauty: a Bourgeois Aesthetic?	149
Aesthetic Objections: The Problem of Translation 154
The Beauty of Ruins	161
7. Artefacts and Everyday Aesthetics 167
Five Features of Everyday Aesthetic Objects 168
The Deweyean Approach to Everyday Aesthetics 172
The Linguistic Practice Argument	i77
Assessing the Linguistic Practice Argument	182
Functional Beauty as an Everyday Aesthetic	jgy
8.The Functions of Art	I9<5
Functions of Art: An Overview	jy7
Intentionalist Theories of Art Function	203
Causal Role Theories of Art Function	209
A Selected Effects Theory of Art Function	216
Functional Beauty and the Appreciation of Art	223
9.Conclusion	228
Bibliography         235
Index          251





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