I wrote:
To me, the central question of
> aesthetics is: What
> is going on when we undergo an "aesthetic
> experience"? Why does it happen?
William responded:
"It's circular to say that aesthetics questions what the aesthetic experience
consists of. Boiled down it says: Aesthetics studies aesthetics."
This is incorrect, William. To respond, I turned to my shelf of aesthetics
anthologies. Here's the table of contents of the very first volume I pulled
down, titled "The Problems of Aesthetics":
1. The Discipline of Aesthetics
2. The Nature of Art
3. The Creative Act
4. The Aesthetic Object
5. The Aesthetic Experience
6. The Aesthetic Judgment
7. The Functions of Art
I'm a subscriber to a quarterly periodical called The Journal of Aesthetic
Education. If you look at it, you'll see the wide variety of subjects the
contributing educators feel are proper subjects for the discipline of
aesthetics.
The aesthetic experience is certainly one of them.
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