Six Encounters with Bolzano’s Aesthetics

2026/01/01 by Dominic McIver Lopes, James Shelley, Mohan Matthen +4 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Diversity and Impact of Dance #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Theater, Performance, and Music History

paper · pdf · doi:10.33134/eeja.583

openalex publication_date 2026/01/01 · openalex created_date 2026/03/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

The symposium comprises six short reflections on Bernard Bolzano’s essays in aesthetics. James Shelley and Mohan Matthen treat the theories of beauty and the arts in their own terms, Jennifer Judkins approaches Bolzano from the perspective of musical performance practice, and Claire Kirwin, Katalin Makkai, and Sandra Shapshay put Bolzano in dialogue with Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Citations

• Bolzano on aesthetic normativity

Discussions

• The symposium “Six Encounters with Bolzano’s Aesthetics,” introduced by Dominic McIver Lopes, brings together six brief reflections on Bernard Bolzano’s #aesthetic essays. Read more on the new issue [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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