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020			_a9780199659319
082			_a701.17 _bPAR
100			_aParsons, Glenn _956900
245			_aFunctional beauty
260			_bClarendon Press _c2012 _aOxford
300			_axiv,255p.
505			_aCONTENTS 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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