Susan L. Feagin (born 11 July 1948; died 12 December 2024) was a philosopher of art, working in the analytic tradition. She was a Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics, Professor Emerita of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a Visiting Research Professor (Retired) in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University.[1][2] She is known primarily for her work on the role of emotions in art.
Biography
editFeagin received a BA degree in Philosophy from Florida State University. She then completed both an MA and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, where she worked under the supervision of Donald W. Crawford.[3]
Before coming to Temple, she held teaching and research positions at the University of Wisconsin and University of Missouri-Kansas City. From 2003 to 2013 she was the Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.[2] In 2016, she gave the Richard Wollheim Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the British Society of Aesthetics at the University of Oxford.[4]
Select publications
edit- “The Pleasures of Tragedy”, American Philosophical Quarterly 20(1):95-104, 1983
- Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation, Cornell University Press, 1996
- Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1997 (co-editor with Patrick Maynard)
- Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics, Blackwell, 2007 (editor)
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ "About the ASA - American Society For Aesthetics". aesthetics-online.org. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ a b "Faculty | College of Liberal Arts". liberalarts.temple.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "Philosophy Family Tree (Josh Dever)" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-06.
- ^ "Susan Feagin named 2016 Richard Wollheim Lecturer - American Society For Aesthetics". aesthetics-online.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.