Monroe Beardsley
Philosopher, Author
1915 – 1985
Who was Monroe Beardsley?
Monroe Curtis Beardsley was an American philosopher of art. He was born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University, where he received the John Addison Porter Prize. He taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Mount Holyoke College and Yale University, but most of his career was spent at Swarthmore College and Temple University. His wife and occasional coauthor, Elizabeth Lane Beardsley, was also a philosopher at Temple.
His work in aesthetics is best known for its championing of the instrumentalist theory of art and the concept of aesthetic experience. Beardsley was elected president of the American Society for Aesthetics in 1956. He also wrote an introductory text on aesthetics and edited a well-regarded survey anthology of philosophy.
Among literary critics, Beardsley is known for two essays written with W.K. Wimsatt, "The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy," both key texts of New Criticism. His works also include: Practical Logic, Aesthetics, and Aesthetics: A Short History. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1915
Bridgeport - Also known as
- Monroe C. Beardsley
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Yale University
Philosophy
( - 1939)
- PhD, Yale University
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
( - 1985/09/18)
- Philadelphia
- Died
- Sep 18, 1985
Philadelphia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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