Intentionalism in Aesthetics.
@article{Livingston1998IntentionalismIA, title={Intentionalism in Aesthetics.}, author={Paisley Nathan Livingston}, journal={New Literary History}, year={1998}, volume={29}, pages={831 - 846} }
of a work of art, and that knowledge of such intentions is a necessary component of at least some adequate interpretive and evaluative claims.1 In this paper I develop and defend this thesis. I begin with a discussion of some anti-intentionalist arguments. Surveying a range of intentionalist responses to them, I briefly introduce and criticize a fictionalist version of intentionalism before moving on to an approach I call moderate intentionalism. I consider a salient alternative known as…
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