Art and its Objects
What defines a work of art and determines the way in which we respond to it? This classic reflection was written with the belief that the nature of art has to be understood simultaneously from the artist's as well as the spectator's viewpoint.
Product details
November 1980Hardback
9780521228985
278 pages
210 × 138 mm
0.5kg
Replaced by 9780521297066
Table of Contents
- Part I. A Theory of Speech Acts:
- 1. Methods and scope
- 2. Expressions, meaning and speech acts
- 3. The structure of illocutionary acts
- 4. Reference as a speech act
- 5. Predication
- Part II. Some Applications of the Theory:
- 6. Three fallacies in contemporary philosophy
- 7. Problems of reference
- 8. Deriving 'ought' from 'is'
- Index.