Dance and the philosophy of action :a framework for the aesthetics of dance

• 作者: McFee, Graham,
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• 稽核項: xxv, 314 pages ;24 cm.
• 標題: Dance , Aesthetics. , Philosophy. , Dance Philosophy.
• ISBN: 1852731788 , 9781852731786
• 附註: Preamble: starting places in philosophy. Introduction : sloopless in Seattle? ; Dance as a performing art ; Elaboration ; Thinking about philosophy ; Philosophy again! ; Abbreviations for references used throughout -- Chapter one: Action, language and persons in dance-aesthetics. Introduction ; Meaning, intending and acting ; Thinking about art ; Recognizing dance as art: 'confusable counterparts' ; Dances as performables ; Back to action! ; The occasion-sensitivity of understanding ; Making sense of intention (for action and for art) ; The rejection of causal explanation for human beings ; Conclusion -- Part one: Persons as agents. Chapter two: Personal identity and identity more generally. Introduction to numerical identity ; Identity, persistence and danceworks ; Examples; and some properties of numerical identity ; Finding the covering concepts? ; Psychological discontinuity; and Wiggins (1980) 'solution' ; Hunting logical possibility ; Determinacy for sortals? ; Identity and composition ; Identity and recognition : is my house a white dot? ; Dance-identity and notationality ; Audience ; Conclusion -- Chapter three: The inexorability of (scientific) causality. Why might the possibility of agency be doubted? ; Some preliminary contrasts : the 'free will debate' ; The exceptionlessness of (some) causal explanation ; Causality and agency ; Is it worth learning to swim? ; On Davidson's anomalous monism ; Conclusion -- Chapter four: Causality and the brain. Introduction ; The causal story of past behaviour : causal sufficiency ; Brain-states and behaviour ; The problem of neural plasticity ; Deploying the "is" of composition (again) ; Reducing thoughts to brain states? : six cases of Nicole ; Contemporary science and the permanence of explanation ; The body's role ; The 'mereological fallacy', from Bennett & Hacker? ; Exceptionlessness in correlation? : the return of 'other minds' ; Wittgenstein's question about states and processes -- Part two: Persons in dance-making. Chapter five: Responsibility - the need for two 'hats'? Introduction ; Identifying dances : the role of the choreographer ; Making dances ; Dancers are not robots ; Questions of authorship and ontology ; Locating responsibility ; Pursuing philosophical aesthetics -- Chapter six: Welcome to the studio - the dancer's role. Introduction ; Dance-making : a worked example (Twyla Tharp) ; The place of dancers ; Demonstrating, rehearsing and preparing ; Star dancers ; Dancers and craft knowledge (and reflective practice) ; Dancing a role ; Conclusion -- Chapter seven: Persistence of dances. Introduction : numerical identity again ; Identity-claims for dances ; Becoming? ; Preservation ; Disappearance ; Endurance? -- Part three: Persons appreciating dance. Chapter eight: Answerability of judgements. Introduction : avoiding misperception ; Seeing the dance - ringers? ; Limitations on perceiving artworks ; Against psychologism (Frege-plus) ; Respect for answerability ; Answerability of bodily position ; Conclusion -- Chapter nine: Crossing the footlights (1) : defusing dualism. Introduction ; Answerability again ; What crosses the footlights? ; John Martin, dance critic : a worked example ; Gathering some evidence : "...the underbrush..." ; Martin's dualism ; Appreciating dances : a human task? ; Four supportive criticisms ; 'Dancers aesthetic' - not a route to audience ; Conclusion -- Chapter ten: Crossing the footlights (2) : meeting neuroscience. Introduction ; Just what is my view? ; What sensory modalities? ; Issues of cues/evidence ; The need for naturalism ; Thinking about perception ; Applied to art? ; Appropriate pessimism : responding to Davies ; Conclusion -- Chapter eleven: Seeing dance and seeing films of dance. Introduction ; Contrasting film and dance ; Limitations of perceiving art ; Alternative encounters? ; A 'revised situation' ; Conclusion : what are the performing arts? -- Chapter twelve: Conclusion. Envoi : the project ; Connections in philosophy.
• 摘要: What discussions from philosophy should be brought to the aesthetics ofdance? Approaches to philosophical aesthetics for dance should consider thevarious agencies of dance-maker (the choreographer), dance-instantiator (thedancer), and observer and commentator on dances (dance-audiences, but alsodance critics). Here, Graham McFee builds on his previous works (UnderstandingDance [Routledge, 1992] and The Philosophical Aesthetics of Dance [Dance Books,2011]) to offer a framework for philosophical investigation of dance aestheticsdrawing on concepts from the philosophy of action crucial for making sense ofartworks, especially in performing arts such as dance: meaning, intending, action.In addressing such framework issues, this text is suitable for introducingphilosophy to relative beginners, drawing on an interest in dance-as-art. Itdisplays the nuanced practice of philosophical debate via the delineation andexemplification of philosophical positions through criticism of others, andthrough responding to criticism.--
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