Peirce's Esthetics of Freedom

Download or read book Peirce's Esthetics of Freedom written by Roberta Kevelson and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.