The aim of this paper is to situate George Cukor?s 1938 film Holiday within an ongoing conversation about the perennial American tension between Romantic longings for self-authorship and the cold pragmatics of wealth accumulation. The aesthetic interest in Holiday is…

This paper argues that the progression of Mark Rotho's painting, from his early, surrealist work to his more famous and more abstract Classical paintings, can be read as following the same structure as outlined by Pseudo-Dionysius' apophatic theology.  In his…

In this paper, I elaborate the difference between the concept of infinity and the idea of infinity through Cantor's diagonalization proof to illuminate a passage in Kant's Critique of Judgment. Taking Lyotard's analysis of aesthetic judgments as the basis for…

?Aesthetic valuism? maintains that aesthetic properties harbor an ineliminable evaluative component, and that to correctly and sincerely apply an aesthetic predicate to a thing just is to give an appraisal of its aesthetic goodness or badness.  Anti-valuism denies this, and…

 Noël Carroll?s seminal account of horror involves two original suggestions that distinguish his theory from previous views of the genre. One is that audiences are supposed to parallel the emotional responses that certain characters have when they confront horror monsters.…

In this paper I make a reconstruction of Kant?s idea of aesthetic education and show the peculiarity of this idea in comparison with more familiar projects of Schiller and the German Romantics. In the first section I briefly outline those…

If we take conceptual art seriously, that is, if we consider that art does not have clear-cut boundaries and that it is not limited to the production of aesthetic objects, then a whole spectrum of possible artworks is open to…

Film theory and aesthetics have been influenced by recent research on perception in cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as in computing and new media technology. We need to approach film with this kind of research in mind and focus…

          Simus, Jason Boaz, Disturbing Nature's Beauty: Environmental Aesthetics in a New Ecological Paradigm. Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophy), August 2009, 132 pp., 223 references, 153 titles.          An ecological paradigm shift from the ";;balance of nature";; to the ";;flux…

This paper explores the simultaneous occurrence and sometimes partnership of music and motion in the field of dance, within which motion and music are repeatedly linked and displayed. At the outset of the paper, I ask: How have simultaneous occurrences…