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Congratulations, it’s a tragedy: Collingwood’s remarks on genre

Congratulations, it’s a tragedy: Collingwood’s remarks on genre
Congratulations, it’s a tragedy: Collingwood’s remarks on genre
This essay argues that R.G. Collingwood's remarks about genre are implausible, and that they stem, despite their apparent origin in his wider account of art, from his failure to take some of his own most important insights seriously enough. Some possible reasons for that failure are suggested; and it is shown that, once the relevant insights are given their proper weight, Collingwood's account commands the resources from which a plausible story about genre might have been constructed. To this extent, the present essay constitutes a defence of Collingwood's philosophy of art.
0007-0904
52-63
Ridley, Aaron
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Ridley, Aaron
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Ridley, Aaron (2002) Congratulations, it’s a tragedy: Collingwood’s remarks on genre. British Journal of Aesthetics, 42 (1), 52-63. (doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/42.1.52).

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This essay argues that R.G. Collingwood's remarks about genre are implausible, and that they stem, despite their apparent origin in his wider account of art, from his failure to take some of his own most important insights seriously enough. Some possible reasons for that failure are suggested; and it is shown that, once the relevant insights are given their proper weight, Collingwood's account commands the resources from which a plausible story about genre might have been constructed. To this extent, the present essay constitutes a defence of Collingwood's philosophy of art.

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Published date: 2002
Organisations: Philosophy

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Local EPrints ID: 28945
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/28945
ISSN: 0007-0904
PURE UUID: 102fa3c4-263d-42ce-b22c-3db852ba78f9

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Date deposited: 08 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:28

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