Emotions in the Psychology of Aesthetics
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Emotions in the Psychology of Aesthetics. / Funch, Bjarne Sode.
I: Arts, Bind 11, Nr. 4, 76, 2022.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotions in the Psychology of Aesthetics
AU - Funch, Bjarne Sode
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Ever since Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) introduced the concept of aesthetics, the prevailing idea has been that the fine arts provide an alternative source of knowledge to the traditional sciences. Art, however, has always been closely associated with emotions. Taking Baumgarten’s treatise on poetry as a point of departure, I argue that Baumgarten laid the ground for a conception of art that emphasizes emotion rather than cognition with a particular appeal to psychology to provide principles of aesthetic appreciation of art. This appeal is met here with a phenomenological discussion of a series of precepts within contemporary emotion theories, which provides the necessary and sufficient conditions for a psychological theory of aesthetic appreciation of art.
AB - Ever since Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) introduced the concept of aesthetics, the prevailing idea has been that the fine arts provide an alternative source of knowledge to the traditional sciences. Art, however, has always been closely associated with emotions. Taking Baumgarten’s treatise on poetry as a point of departure, I argue that Baumgarten laid the ground for a conception of art that emphasizes emotion rather than cognition with a particular appeal to psychology to provide principles of aesthetic appreciation of art. This appeal is met here with a phenomenological discussion of a series of precepts within contemporary emotion theories, which provides the necessary and sufficient conditions for a psychological theory of aesthetic appreciation of art.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - emotion
KW - aesthetics
KW - phenomenology
KW - art appreciation
KW - existential well-being
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
JO - Arts
JF - Arts
SN - 0066-8095
IS - 4
M1 - 76
ER -
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