著者

加藤 隆文

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.70, no.1, pp.49-60, 2019 (Released:2021-05-08)

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This paper proposes an extended understanding of the discipline called ‘analytic aesthetics’, with reference to analytic pragmatism proposed by a prominent neo- pragmatist, R. Brandom. It is therefore argued that analytic aesthetics should be reconsidered in terms of ‘analytic pragmatist aesthetics’. N. Carroll’s philosophy of criticism is expected to offer an appropriate picture illustrating how the analytic pragmatist aesthetics can be embodied in the actual scene. Carroll argues that (1) ‘reasoned evaluation’ comprises the essential part of criticism, and that (2) ‘success value’ should be considered as more privileged than ‘reception value’. This paper assents to (1): the framework of analytic pragmatism, according to which semantics of certain aspects of natural language is understood in terms of their pragmatics, can be aptly applied into the philosophy of criticism. The claim (2), however, may be in tension with pragmatists’ theory of art. Once the pragmatist concept of experience is accepted, the privileged status of success value over reception value is no longer hard and fast: they are two sides of the same coin. This paper thus revises the philosophy of criticism and represents it as a promising illustration of analytic pragmatism implemented in the context of aesthetics independently of Carroll’s argument.