Value First: Comments on Mohan Matthen’s ‘The Pleasure of Art’

Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (1):79-84 (2017)
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Abstract

While I welcome Mohan Matthen’s insistence that art is connected to aesthetic pleasure, I worry about his commitment to viewing pleasure as prior to, and constitutive of, the value of art. I raise my reservations by (i) dispelling his criticism of the reversed explanatory direction, and (ii) showing problems for his commitment. As an alternative, I offer an account of pleasure that explains it in terms of the independent value of art—an account that is free of the problems Matthen raises against this explanatory approach.

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Keren Gorodeisky
Auburn University

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