Estetika (Sep 2017)

Aesthetic Experience, Aesthetic Value

  • Jane Forsey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.162
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 54, no. 2
pp. 175 – 188

Abstract

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This paper offers a critical analysis of Robert Stecker’s account of aesthetic experience and its relation to aesthetic and artistic values. The analysis will demonstrate that Stecker’s formulation of aesthetic experience as it stands is incompatible with his arguments for nonaesthetic artistic values. Rather than multiplying the values associated with aesthetic experience, a deeper understanding of that experience will best serve to clarify problems at the core of the discipline.