Aesthetic Experience

<p>In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense--not only in relation to art and artists but to our inner and spiritual lives. </p> <p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Introduction: Contemplating the Undefinable </p><p>Adele Tomlin</p><p>Experience and the Nature of the Aesthetic</p><p>1. Aesthetic Essence </p><p>Malcolm Budd</p><p>2. The Aesthetic: From Experience to Art </p><p>Paul Crowther</p><p>3. The Dialectic of Aesthetics: the New Strife between Philosophy and Art </p><p>Christophe Menke</p><p>4. Experiential Theories of Aesthetic Value </p><p>Gary Iseminger</p><p>The Value and Scope of Aesthetic Experience</p><p>5. The Aesthetic: From Analysis to Eros </p><p>Richard Shusterman</p><p>6. On the Scope of Aesthetic Experience </p><p>Martin Seel</p><p>7. Refined Emotion in Aesthetic Experience </p><p>Kathleen Higgins</p><p>8. Taste, Food and the Limits of Pleasure </p><p>Carolyn Korsmeyer </p><p>Aesthetic Experience, Artists, and Philosophies of Art </p><p>9. Aesthetic Experience, Art and Artists </p><p>Noel Carroll</p><p>10. Between Being and Doing: Aesthetics at the Crossroads </p><p>Jean-Pierre Cometti</p><p>11. Schopenhauer and the Foundations of Aesthetic Experience </p><p>Alex Neill</p>