Fregean Realism

Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions

Andrei Pop

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Lexington Books
15 December 2024

The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Philosophy: aesthetics

Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions argues that literary fictions, pictures, and other artworks are modes of access to Gottlob Frege’s “third realm” of objective thoughts, about both what is in the real world and what is not, but might, or might not, be. Starting with a critique of fictionalism—the doctrine that art makes no ontological commitments because it depends on acts of pretending—Andrei Pop shifts focus to the shared meaning addressed by acts of pretending and other audience reactions to works of art. This book shows that a Fregean theory of sense, assertion, and concepts does justice to the context-specificity of artistic meaning while allowing for durable—indeed eternal—conceptual content. It explores implications for venerable problems such as the truth of art, the reality of aesthetic properties, beauty and ugliness, but also for specific genres or modes, like sculpture, allegory, the relation between image and caption, and the first-person picture.

By: Andrei Pop
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 585g
ISBN: 9781666956504
ISBN 10: 1666956503
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 15 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction: Frodo Lives! Chapter 1: What Fiction Could Not Be Chapter 2: From Make-Believe to Realism Chapter 3: Frege’s Theory of Pictures Chapter 4: Art and Truths Chapter 5: Allegory and its Discontents Chapter 6: Sculpture as Cubic Form Chapter 7: Bolzano on the Objectivity of Ugliness (and Beauty) Chapter 8: Aesthetic Properties: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous Chapter 9: Goya and the Paradox of Tolerance Chapter 10: On First Person Perspective(s) Conclusion: Flower Arranging in the Library of Babel Bibliography Notes About the Author

Andrei Pop is Allan and Jean Frumkin professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.

Reviews for Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions

ldquo;Andrei Poprsquo;s Fregean Realism is an innovative application of Fregersquo;s accounts of sense, reference, and assertion to pictorial meaning, providing a perspective from which it is possible to appreciate overlooked points of connection between rival accounts of the experience of depiction. Pop brings his Platonist realism to bear on a wide range of issues central to art and its history: the nature of allegory, of symbolism, of sculptural form, of aesthetic properties, and of pictorial truth and knowledge. The joint attention paid to demanding texts in the history of early analytic philosophy and European art history is both enlivening and revealing.rdquo;