M: Meaning Constructivism

Robert Stecker

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationA Companion to Aesthetics
    Subtitle of host publicationSecond Edition
    PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
    Pages418-421
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Print)9781405169226
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Aug 5 2009

    Keywords

    • Can mass art really be art?
    • Margolis, Joseph, American philosopher - philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language
    • Marxism and art - Marxism has proved very fertile in areas of aesthetic and literary criticism
    • Mass art is designed and produced for large audiences - usually by automated, industrial procedures, such as printing
    • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice - for his analyses of human existence, perception, and action in Phenomenology of Perception
    • Moderate constructivist idea that interpretations alter their objects by what they say about them
    • Verbal composition which, on the basis of novel semantic relations among its components, evokes a complex and productive set of mental responses
    • mass art is art that is mass produced - typically by an automated technology for mass consumption
    • meaning constructivism - convenient label for a collection of views about objects and nature of interpretation
    • morality and art - relation between art and morality of recurrent interest to Western philosophy and literary criticism since Plato

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