Elucidating the truth in criticism
Friend, Stacie (2017) Elucidating the truth in criticism. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (4), pp. 387-399. ISSN 1540-6245.
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Abstract
Analytic aesthetics has had little (or positive) to say about academic schools of criticism, such as Freudian, Marxist, feminist, or postcolonial perspectives. Historicists typically view their interpretations as anachronistic; non-historicists assess all interpretations according to formalist criteria. Insofar as these strategies treat these interpretations as on a par, however, they are inadequate. For the theories that ground the interpretations differ in the claims they make about the world. I argue that the interpretations of different critical schools can be evaluated according to the truth or epistemic merit of these claims.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the article, which has been published in final form at the link above. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Aesthetics, criticism, interpretation, historicism, Hamlet, Reality Principle |
| School: | School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Philosophy |
| Depositing User: | Stacie Friend |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2017 10:44 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2021 17:58 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18012 |
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