# Aesthetic Disinterestedness and the Mental State of Entertaining  ## Metadata - Author: [[Enrico Terrone]] - Full Title: Aesthetic Disinterestedness and the Mental State of Entertaining - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Document Tags: [[favorite]] [[refereeing]] - Summary: Terrone argues for a new category, "disfiction," of artworks that invite entertaining rather than belief or imagining. Entertaining involves a disinterested attitude that focuses on the artwork’s form and creation. This attitude can apply beyond representational art to nonrepresentational and even non-art objects. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/371846858 ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > That is to say that the proper aesthetic engagement with works of art requires subsuming them under the relevant categories (cf. Carlson 1981), ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6z8htxcprwxgdk69t1jrc97)) > When one engages with a work of fiction, one is not interested in the representational content to occur in the actual world, and yet one is surely interested in that content to occur in a world that is not one's own, namely, the fictional world. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6z8qrynptpvw0zvphrjz9bz)) > The appreciator of *Still Life with Peaches and Pears* is not meant to be interested in the existence of those fruits, and not even in their nonexistence, if the latter means alleged existence in a world different from ours. The proper appreciative stance is rather indifference toward existence, as Kant (1790, §2, 5:204) suggests in his characterization of aesthetic disinterestedness: "One only wants to know whether the mere representation of the object is accompanied with satisfaction in me, regardless of whether the object exists or not." ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6zck8p3refkx4bdsr2e84c6)) > affects are affected ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6z9hrvstx596v926vjq4f4q))