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Aaron Meskin

Disciplines:
aesthetics

Summary

American philosopher who has worked on the aesthetics of comics and the relationship between ethics and aesthetics.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the aesthetics of comics as a legitimate art form and to the ethicism debate — whether moral defects in art are necessarily aesthetic defects.

Historical Influences

Noël Carroll Berys Gaut

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Aesthetics

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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