Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art
What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them?
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The Construction of Meaning in Vision—Three Examples: Bonnard, Hammershøi, Poussin
In this article, I part from two of Jean Petitot’s [22, 30] fundamental claims or scientific findings: (1) certain spatial relations occurring both in ordinary vision and in pictures are intrinsically significant...
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Feeling, meaning, and intentionality—a critique of the neuroaesthetics of beauty
This article addresses the phenomenology of aesthetic experience. It first, critically, considers one of the most influential approaches to the psychophysics of aesthetic perception, viz. neuroaesthetics. Here...
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Introduction
The purpose of the present volume is to investigate the multifarious aspects of the relation between an artwork (visual, literary, or musical), its objective properties, the meaningful experience of it, and th...
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More Seeing-in: Surface Seeing, Design Seeing, and Meaning Seeing in Pictures
The paper considers the phenomenology of aesthetic experience as “twofold” in a sense akin to Wollheim’s (Painting as an art. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987). However, as regards the perception of...
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The grammar of aesthetic intuition: on Ernst Cassirer’s concept of symbolic form in the visual arts
This paper provides a précis of Ernst Cassirer’s concept of art as a symbolic form. It does so, though, in a specific respect. It points to the fact that Cassirer’s concept of “symbolic form” is two-sided. On ...
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Husserl and Language
From a purely quantitative point of view, Edmund Husserl has devoted a rather small amount of time and space to the study of language proper. Essentially, his contributions within this domain amount to the des...
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The ideal scaffolding of language: Husser's fourth Logical Investigation in the light of cognitive linguistics
One of the central issues in linguistics is whether or not language should be considered a self-contained, autonomous formal system, essentially reducible to the syntactic algorithms of meaning construction (a...
