Search for dissertations about: "philosophical aesthetics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words philosophical aesthetics.

2. 1. Emotions as a mode of understanding : An essay in philosophical aesthetics

   Author : Katarina Elam; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archive studies; concern; context; emotions; judgement; narrative; pre-reflective; self-in-process; understanding; Arkivvetenskap; Other humanities and religion; Övrig humaniora och religionsvetenskap; Estetik; Aesthetics;

   Abstract : The aim of this investigation is to discuss emotions as a mode of understanding and in what ways emotions can be connected to narrative art. An emotion is a sign that a person has understood a situation in a certain way, an understanding which will also be valid in interacting with different kinds of narrative art. READ MORE

4. 2. Aesthetics as grammar : Wittgenstein and post-analytic philosophy of art

   Author : Simo Säätelä; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Estetik; Aesthetics; Estetik; Aesthetics; estetik;

   Abstract : This work attempts to assess the significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later thought for philosophical aesthetics, both by showing its direct relevance and by criticizing certain prevalent misunderstandings of it. Chapter one deals with the application to philosophical aesthetics of the idea that philosophy is concerned with a grammatical investigation, which means clarification of concepts as well as therapeutical analysis of various philosophical diseases. READ MORE

5. 3. Mis-Movements : The Aesthetics of Gesture in Samuel Beckett's Drama

   Author : Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson; Ishrat Lindblad; Matthew Feldman; Steven Connor; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Beckett; phenomenology; aesthetics; movements; perception; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This study explores Beckett’s use of physical movements in his plays as part of a strategy to escape the limits of semantic meaning and as an instrument of artistic expression. In a sense, the use of physical movements constitutes a phenomenological, heuristic ‘solution’ to the problem of presentation and representation that Beckett explicitly addresses already in the early 1930s. READ MORE

6. 4. Kripke on Necessity : A Metaphysical Investigation

   Author : Kyriakos Theodoridis; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; Systematic philosophy; conceivability; mereological identity; ontological character; identity; possible worlds; actuality; properties; ontology; object; contingency; apriori; Metaphysical; epistemic; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Systematisk filosofi; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi; Philosophical logic; Filosofisk logik; logik;

   Abstract : I undertake a metaphysical investigation of Saul Kripke's modern classic, Naming and Necessity (1980). The general problem of my study may be expressed as follows: What is the metaphysical justification of the validity and existence of the pertinent classes of truths, the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori, according to the Kripke Paradigm? My approach is meant to disclose the logical and ontological principles underlying Kripke's arguments for the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori respectively. READ MORE

7. 5. The Aesthetics of Movement : Variations on Gilles Deleuze and Merce Cunningham

   Author : Camilla Damkjaer; Sven Åke Heed; Niels Overgaard Lehmann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interdisciplinary studies; Gilles Deleuze; Merce Cunningham; John Cage; Félix Guattari; Francis Bacon; dance; philosophy; movement; choreography; the body; heterogeneity; juxtaposition; representation; happening; chance.; Theatre; Teatervetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the aesthetics of movement in Gilles Deleuze’s writings and in Merce Cunningham’s choreographies. But it is also a study of the movement that arises when the two meet in a series of variations, where also their respective working partners Félix Guattari and John Cage enter. READ MORE