ABSTRACT

Several art scholars have recently doubted the prudence of thinking about the nature of aesthetic value. The problem is that traditional thinking about aesthetic value fails to capture the specificities with which empirical art scholars must grapple. This paper diagnoses how the tradition came to think in this problematic way about aesthetic value. It then sketches an approach to aesthetic value that boosts the refractive power of the tools that scholars of the arts can use to bring into focus some of the specificities they care about. The path to that goal skirts the troublesome features of traditional approaches.

中文翻译：

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如何思考如何思考审美价值

摘要

最近有几位艺术学者对思考审美价值的本质的审慎性表示怀疑。问题在于，关于审美价值的传统思维未能捕捉到经验艺术学者必须解决的特殊性。本文诊断了传统如何以这种有问题的方式思考美学价值。然后，它勾勒出一种审美价值的方法，该方法增强了艺术学者可以用来聚焦他们关心的一些特殊性的工具的折射能力。通往该目标的道路避开了传统方法的麻烦特征。