Eva Schaper
Eva Schaper (1 October 1924 – 11 June 1992) German aesthetician and academic. She was co-founder and later president of the British Society of Aesthetics[1] and president of the British Society for Phenomenology.[2]
Biography
Eva Schaper was born at Iserlohn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.[3] She graduated from the University of Münster and moved to Britain in 1948 on scholarship to the University of Sheffield.
Schaper received the Stevenson scholarship in 1951 from the University of Glasgow and began teaching Philosophy as an Assistant Lecturer in 1952. She moved to the Bangor University in 1955, before moving back to Glasgow where she was a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy from 1958 until 1967, becoming Senior Lecturer until 1972 and Reader from 1972 to 1977. Schaper then became Titular Professor of Logic from 1977 until her retirement in 1990, during which time she also served on the University Senate and University Court (1985–1989).
Schaper continued to teach and was Honorary Senior Research Fellow from 1990 until her sudden death after suffering a stroke, aged 67.
Works
- Prelude to Aesthetics (1968)
- Studies in Kant's Aesthetics (1979)
- Pleasure, Preference and Value: Studies in Philosophical Aesthetics (1983; editor)
- Reading Kant: New Perspectives on Transcendental Arguments and Critical Philosophy (1989; editor, with Wilhelm Vossenkuhl)
Selected publications
- "Kant's Schematism Reconsidered," Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (1964)
- "The Art Symbol," British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. IV, No. 3 (1964)
- "A Modern Faust: The Novel in the Ironical Key," Orbis Litterarum, Vol. XX, No. 1 (1965)
- "Aristotle’s Catharsis and Aesthetc Pleasure," The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 71 (1968)
- "Fiction and the Suspension of Disbelief," British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. XVIII, No. 1 (1978)
Collaborations
- "Taste, Sublimity and Genius: The Aesthetics of Nature and Art." In: Cambridge Companion to Kant (1992), pp. 367–93.
Notes
- ↑ Diffey, T. J. (1993). "Eva Schaper (1924–1992)," The British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, p. 1.
- ↑ Stern-Gillet, Suzanne (1993). "Eva Schaper (1924–1992)," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, p. 199.
- ↑ "Eva Schaper". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
