A Companion to Aesthetics

by Davies, Stephen; Higgins, Kathleen Marie; Hopkins, Robert; Stecker, Robert; Cooper, David E.

• ISBN13: 9781405169226
• ISBN10: 1405169222
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times

Author Biography

Stephen Davies is at the Univertiy of Aukland. He is the author of Definitions of Art (Cornell University Press, 1991), Musical Meaning and Expression (Cornell University Press, 1994), Musical Works and Performances (Clarendon, 2001), Themes in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford University Press, 2003), and The Philosophy of Art (Blackwell, 2006). He is the editor of Art and Its Messages (Penn State, 1997) and co-editor of Art & Essence (Praeger, 2003). He is co-editor for aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Res Musica, and Philosophy Compass.

Kathleen Marie Higgins is at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Music of Our Lives (Temple University Press, 1991), of many books in other areas of philosophy, and is editor of Aesthetics in Perceptive (Harcourt Brace, 1996). She is on the editorial board of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. She brings to the project specialist knowledge of Continental philosophy, history of aesthetics, non-Western aesthetics, and feminism.

Robert Hopkins, University of Sheffield, is the author of Picture, Image and Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He brings to the project expert knowledge of painting, the plastic arts, the imagination, and aesthetic judgment.

Robert Stecker is at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Artworks (Penn State, 1997), Interpretation and Construction (Blackwell, 2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He brings to the project specialist knowledge of literature and interpretation. He is co-editor for aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and he has co-edited editions of Hume's Treatise and of Locke's Essay.

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His many books include Epistemology: The Classic Readings (Blackwell 1999); Ethics: The Classic Readings (Blackwell 1997); A Companion to Aesthetics (Blackwell 1992); World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (Blackwell 1995); Metaphor (1986); Heidegger (1996). He is currently editing the series Philosophy: The Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers).

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Historical Overviews

Art of the Paleolithic

Aesthetics in Antiquity

Medieval and Renaissance Aesthetics

Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Continental Aesthetics

Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Aesthetics

The Arts

Architecture

Dance

Drama

Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking

Literature

Motion Pictures

Music and Song

Opera

Photography

Poetry

Sculpture

Abstraction

Adorno, Theodor W(iesengrund)

Aesthetic Attitude

Aesthetic Education

Aesthetic Judgment

Aesthetic Pleasure

Aesthetic Properties

Aestheticism

Aesthetics of Food and Drink

Aesthetics of the Environment

Aesthetics of the Everyday

African Aesthetics

Amerindian Aesthetics

Aquinas, Thomas

Aristotle

Art History

Artifact, Art as

"Artworld"

Authenticity and Art

Barthes, Roland

Baumgarten

Beardsley, Monroe C(urtis)

Beauty

Bell, (Arthur) Clive (Heward)

Benjamin, Walter

Burke, Edmund

Canon

Catharsis

Cavell, Stanley

Censorship

Chinese Aesthetics

Cognitive Science and Art

Cognitive Value of Art

Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge)

Comedy: Noël Carroll

Conceptual Art

Conservation and Restoration

Creativity

Critical Monism and Pluralism

Criticism

Croce, Benedetto

Cultural Appropriation

Danto, Arthur C(oleman)

Deconstruction

Definition of "Art"

Deleuze, Gilles

Depiction

Derrida, Jacques

Dewey, John

Dickie, George

Dufrenne, Mikel

Emotion

Erotic Art and Obscenity

Evolution, Art, and Aesthetics

Expression

Expression Theory

Feminist Aesthetics

Feminist Criticism: Renée Lorraine

Feminist Standpoint Aesthetics: A. W. Eaton

Fiction, Nature of

Fiction, the Paradox of Responding to

Fiction, Truth in

Fictional Entities

Forgery

Formalism

Foucault, Michel

Function of Art

Gadamer, Hans-Georg

Gardens

Genre

Gombrich, Sir Ernst

Goodman, Nelson

Hanslick, Eduard

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Heidegger, Martin

Hermeneutics

Horror

Hume, David

Humor

Hutcheson, Francis

Iconoclasm and Idolatry

Illusion

Imagination

Imaginative Resistance

Implied Author

Indian Aesthetics

Ineffability

Ingarden, Roman

Intention and Interpretation

"Intentional Fallacy"

Interpretation

Interpretation, Aims of

Irony

Islamic Aesthetics

Japanese Aesthetics

Kant, Immanuel

Kierkegaard, Søren

Kitsch

Kristeva, Julia

Langer, Susanne

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

Lewis, C(Larence) I(Rving)

Lukács, Georg

Margolis, Joseph

Marxism and Art

Mass Art

Meaning Constructivism

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

Metaphor

Modernism and Postmodernism

Morality and Art

Museums

Narrative

Nietzsche, Friedrich (Wilhelm)

Notations

Objectivity and Realism in Aesthetics

Ontological Contextualism

Ontology of Artworks

Originality

Performance

Performance Art

Perspective

Picture Perception

Plato

Plotinus

Popular Art

Pornography

Pragmatist Aesthetics

Psychoanalysis and Art

Race and Aesthetics

Rasa

Realism

Relativism

Religion and Art

Representation

Ruskin, John

Santayana, George

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von

Schiller,

Schlegel, August Wilhelm Von

Schlegel, Friedrich Von

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Science and Art

Scruton, Roger

Senses and Art, the

Sentimentality

Shaftesbury, Lord

Sibley, Frank Noel

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Style

Sublime

Symbol

Taste

Technology and Art

Testimony in Aesthetics

Text

Theories of Art

Tolstoy

Tradition

Tragedy

Truth in Art

Universals in Art

Walton

Wilde, Oscar

Wittgenstein

Wollheim

Index

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