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Aesthetics : A Comprehensive Anthology
by Cahn, Steven M.; Meskin, AaronEdition:
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Pub. Date:
10/1/2007
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Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
From Plato's Ion to works by contemporary philosophers, this anthology showcases classic texts to illuminate the development of philosophical thought about art and the aesthetic. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of readings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art currently available. Brings together the most significant writings in aesthetics and philosophy of art from the past 2500 years Each section includes a useful introductory essay which provides an overview of developments in the field Broken down into three sections: Historical Sources, Modern Theories, and Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Thorough, systematic, and flexible, including two alternative tables of contents (historical and topical); an ideal textbook and guide to the field
Author Biography
Steven M. Cahn is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of nine books, including Fate, Logic, and Time, Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia, revised edition, Puzzles and Perplexities, second edition, and God, Reason, and Religion. He has also edited or co-edited some thirty volumes, including Classics of Western Philosophy, now in its seventh edition.
Aaron Meskin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His publications on aesthetics have appeared in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and a number of anthologies. He is also aesthetics editor for the online journal Philosophy Compass (Wiley-Blackwell).
Aaron Meskin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His publications on aesthetics have appeared in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and a number of anthologies. He is also aesthetics editor for the online journal Philosophy Compass (Wiley-Blackwell).
Table of Contents
| Aesthetics: Classic and Contemporary Readings | |
| Edited by Cahn and Meskin | |
| Preface | |
| Historical Sources | |
| The Modern System of the Arts | |
| Ion: Plato | |
| The Republic: Plato | |
| Symposium: Plato | |
| Poetics: Aristotle | |
| Ennead I, vi: Plotinus | |
| Of Music | |
| On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology | |
| Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Third Earl of Shaftesbury | |
| Inquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue | |
| Of the Standard of Taste | |
| Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful | |
| Laocoon | |
| Critique of Judgment | |
| Modern Theories | |
| Introduction to Modern Theories | |
| Letter of an Aesthetic Education of Man | |
| Philosophy of Art | |
| The Philosophy of Fine Art | |
| The World as Will and Representation | |
| The Beautiful in Music | |
| The Birth of Tragedy | |
| What is Art? | |
| ÆPsychical DistanceÆ as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle | |
| Art | |
| Aesthetics | |
| The Principles of Art | |
| Art as Experience | |
| Feeling and Form | |
| The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |
| The Origin of the Work of Art | |
| Aesthetic Theory | |
| Truth and Method | |
| Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art | |
| Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics | |
| Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy | |
| The Role of Theory in Aesthetics | |
| The Artworld | |
| What is Art? An Institutional Analysis | |
| When is Art? | |
| Identifying Art | |
| The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude | |
| Art and its Objects | |
| What a Musical Work Is | |
| Aesthetic Concepts | |
| Beauty Restored | |
| Categories of Art | |
| Appreciation and the Natural Environment | |
| The Intentional Fallacy | |
| The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal | |
| Art Intention and Conversation | |
| The Ethical Criticism of Art | |
| Expressive Properties of Art | |
| Style and Personality in the Literary Work | |
| Emotions in the Music | |
| Fearing Fictions | |
| Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers and the Gendered Spectator | |
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