Contextualizing Aesthetics From Plato to Lyotard

by Blocker, H. Gene; Jeffers, Jennifer M.

• ISBN13: 9780534528218
• ISBN10: 053452821X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-27
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This book brings philosophical aesthetics into a broader cultural interest in the fine arts and draws together the classics of the history of aesthetics, the mid-twentieth century or "Analytic" aesthetics, and late-twentieth century or "Continental" post-structuralist "theory."

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(4)
Introduction	xi
Part I History	1	(106)
A. The Ancient (Greek and Roman) Period	2	(47)
Plato
The Republic	11	(11)
Plato
Cratylus	22	(11)
Aristotle
The Poetics	33	(13)
Longinus
On the Sublime	46	(3)
B. The Modern (18th- and 19th- Century) Period	49	(58)
Edmund Burke
"The Sublime and Beautiful"	66	(9)
David Hume
"Of the Standard of Taste"	75	(9)
Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Judgment	84	(6)
George W. F. Hegel
Aesthetics	90	(7)
Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea	97	(5)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art and the Will to Power	102	(5)
Part II The Analytic Critique of the Aesthetic	107	(84)
Anita Silvers
"Letting the Sunshine In: Has Analysis Made Aesthetics Clear?"	110	(8)
A. The Analytic Critique of Aesthetic Experience	118	(22)
Monroe C. Beardsley
"The Aesthetic Point of View"	120	(10)
George Dickie
"The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude"	130	(10)
B. The Problem of Defining Art	140	(21)
Arthur Danto
"The Artistic Enfranchisement of Real Objects: The Artworld"	145	(8)
George Dickie
The Art Circle	153	(8)
C. The Status of the Work of Art	161	(17)
Richard Wollheim
Art and Its Objects	165	(6)
Jerrold Levinson
"What a Musical Work Is"	171	(7)
D. The Analytic Critique of the Expression Theory of Art	178	(13)
Jenefer Robinson
"The Expression and Arousal of Emotion in Music"	180	(11)
Part III Continental and Contemporary Theory	191	(147)
A. Myths of Modernism	192	(26)
Rosalind E. Krauss
Introduction to The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths	195	(4)
Paul de Man
"The Resistance to Theory"	199	(8)
Roland Barthes
"From Work to Text"	207	(5)
Robert Venturi
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture	212	(6)
B. Art and Postmodernity	218	(33)
Michel Foucault
This Is Not a Pipe	223	(7)
Gilles Deleuze
"Nomadic Philosophy of Art"	230	(9)
Paul Crowther
"Postmodernism in the Visual Arts"	239	(12)
C. The Critique of Truth	251	(27)
Martin Heidegger
"The Origin of the Work of Art"	257	(7)
Meyer Shapiro
"The Still Life as a Personal Object--A Note on Heidegger and van Gogh"	264	(4)
Jacques Derrida
The Truth in Painting	268	(10)
D. Cultural Materialism	278	(31)
Walter Benjamin
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"	282	(8)
Theodor Adorno
Aesthetic Theory	290	(4)
Tony Bennett
"Really Useless `Knowledge': A Political Critique of Aesthetics"	294	(7)
Griselda Pollock
"Feminist Art Histories and Marxism"	301	(8)
E. The Postmodern Sublime	309	(29)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
"The Sublime and the Avant-Garde"	312	(9)
Fredric Jameson
Postmodernism	321	(10)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
"Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime"	331	(7)
Bibliography	338	(5)
Index	343