Bøger af Richard Winfield

First published in 1989, Overcoming Foundations offers a challenge to both postmodernism and traditional doctrines of knowledge and value by undertaking a systematic philosophy without foundations.

First published in 1995, this book aims at rehabilitating systematic aesthetics. To this end, it attempts to show how metaphysical, transcendental, and systematic aesthetics comprise the fundamental options for the philosophy of art, how metaphysical and transcendental aesthetics internally undermine themselves, and, finally, how their dilemmas are overcome by systematic aesthetics.It discusses themes like critique of metaphysical aesthetics; impasse of transcendental aesthetics; individuality of beauty; the existence of beauty in the work of art; the extreme reality of the work of art and the reception of art. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of art and philosophy in general.

I knew Mark A. Landis when he was in high school. He was a thin guy, always dressed conservatively, in button down shirts, slacks, polished shoes with laces, and a sort of jacket like what Air Force personnel are issued. He was gifted with artistic ability, even then. He could copy a photograph, in pencil, and make it look better than the photograph. He didn't know how to deal with people, though, and was bullied more than a little. He retreated inside himself. I don't think anyone in his life knew how to deal with him, not even his parents. He just had a solitary path to walk. If he had more positive feedback, when he was younger, I believe he could have been a great artist.

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