Trentini, Bruno

What kind of naturalization for what kind of aesthetics? - 2015.


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The divide between opponents and supporters of the naturalization of aesthetics tends to obscure the fact that several naturalizations are possible. After a critical analysis of experimental investigations of aesthetic categories (such as the beautiful and the sublime), this text suggests ways in which aesthetics continues to play a role in philosophy of art, notably contemporary art, by the study of adaptation of cognitive processes involved in aesthetic experience.