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Subject: [AE] LAF 22 FEB: Elisabeth Schellenkens - Aesthetic
Displeasure and Artistic Appreciation
LONDON AESTHETICS FORUM
Wednesday, 22 February 2012 | 16.00 - 18.00
Senate House (South Block), University of London. Room 104
"Aesthetic Displeasure and Artistic Appreciation: Feeling bad
about Good Art"
ELISABETH SCHELLENKENS (Durham University)
Abstract:
The notion of pleasure has long played a dominant role in our
philosophical reflections about how we respond to art and the
aesthetic. But the fact that we tend to take some aspects of
this assumption for granted weakens our approach in two ways:
first, we tend not to work with a particularly sophisticated
conception of aesthetic pleasure and the different forms that
enjoyment can take in artistic experience; second, cases where
displeasure occurs are usually subsumed under more
conventional explanations which do eventually refer to
aesthetic pleasure.
This paper targets works which seem to challenge orthodoxy of
this kind and which cannot adequately be addressed in the
context of what has become known as the bparadox of tragedyb
or the bparadox of horrorb. The argument focuses on cases
where an emotional response to a good artwork is fundamentally
negative (i.e. where that response remains negative
throughout). After establishing that such cases are indeed
possible, an explanation is provided of what it means to say
that negative emotional responses can play a non-transient
role in our aesthetic experiences of good art. Finally, we
turn to examine the different kinds of pleasure that good art
can afford.
The talk is free and open to all.
LAF is sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics
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