Peirce's Esthetics of Freedom
Author | : Roberta Kevelson |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : IND:30000044423436 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: According to Peirce, the value of the idea of freedom arises only to oppose the idea of necessity. Freedom emerges as a working value, a primary esthetic principle, in response to that which is perceived as fixed, determined, necessary, absolute. The idea of Freedom materializes, assumes a million appearances, wears its ten million masks... ...Freedom as the Freedom-to-Focus is a Peircean esthetic process that becomes realized through the three stages of Fragment/Fractal, Fact, Form. This triadic process corresponds to the semiotic functions of Icon, Index, Symbol. Freedom's course is nonlineal, self-corrective, dynamic, open: Freedom is the occasion for Chaos, and Chaos is the locus of Form.