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The Primacy of the Aesthetic: On the Nature of Aesthetic Response and the Meaning of the Aesthetic Field

Peter Abbs Lecturer in Education, University of Sussex.

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By an aesthetic idea I mean the representation of the imagination which induces much thought, yet without the possibility of any definite thought whatever, i.e. concept, being adequate to it, and which language, consequently, can never get quite on level terms with or render completely intelligible.

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By an aesthetic idea I mean the representation of the imagination which induces much thought, yet without the possibility of any definite thought whatever, i.e. concept, being adequate to it, and which language, consequently, can never get quite on level terms with or render completely intelligible.

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By an aesthetic idea I mean the representation of the imagination which induces much thought, yet without the possibility of any definite thought whatever, i.e. concept, being adequate to it, and which language, consequently, can never get quite on level terms with or render completely intelligible.

Key concepts: Meaning (existential), Aesthetics, Field (mathematics), Aesthetic experience, Art, Psychology, Philosophy, Epistemology

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