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Six Encounters with Bolzano’s Aesthetics
Six Encounters with Bolzano’s Aesthetics

Author(s): Dominic McIver Lopes, James Shelley, Mohan Matthen, Jennifer Judkins, Claire Kirwin, Katalin Makkai, Sandra Shapshay
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Contemporary Philosophy, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Conference Report
Published by: Helsinki University Press
Keywords: beauty; pleasure; arts; performance; Bolzano; Kant; Nietzsche; Schopenhauer;

Summary/Abstract: The symposium comprises six short reflections on Bernard Bolzano’s essays in aesthetics. James Shelley and Mohan Matthen treat the theories of beauty and the arts in their own terms, Jennifer Judkins approaches Bolzano from the perspective of musical performance practice, and Claire Kirwin, Katalin Makkai, and Sandra Shapshay put Bolzano in dialogue with Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

  • Issue Year: 63/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 89-112
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English
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