Philosophies of Art and Beauty : Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger

by Hofstadter, Albert

• ISBN13: 9780226348124
• ISBN10: 0226348121
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1976-08-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction Plato

The Arts and Measure (Selections fromStatesman)

Imitative Art: Definition and Criticism (Selections fromThe Republic, Sophist, Laws)

Artistic Inspiration (Selections fromIon, Phaedrus)

The Love of Beauty (Selections fromSymposium) Aristotle

What Is Art? (Selections fromMetaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics)

Coming-to-Be and Artistic Production: Nature and Art (Selections fromParts of Animals, Physics, and Metaphysics)

Standard of Artistic Goodness (Selections fromNicomachean Ethics)

Beauty (Selections fromMetaphysics, Rhetoric)

The Imitative Art of Poetry (Selections fromPoetics, Rhetoric)

Theory of Music (Selections fromPolitics)

Plotinus Ennead I, Sixth Tractate: Beauty Ennead V

Eighth Tractate: On the Intellectual Beauty Selections fromEnnead VI

Seventh Tractate: Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms Selections fromEnnead III

Eight Tractate: Nature, Contemplation, and the One Translated by

Selections fromDe Ordine

Selections fromDe Musica Redaction and

Selections fromCommentary on Plato'sSymposium

Selections fromCharacteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

Selections fromSecond Charactersorthe Language of Forms Immanuel Kant

Selections fromCritique of Judgment

Selections fromSystem of Transcendental Idealism

Selections fromThe Philosophy of Fine Art

Selections fromThe World as Will and Idea

Selections fromThe Birth of Tragedy

Selections from "Aesthetics" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fourteenth Edition)

Selections fromArt as Experience

The Origin of the Work of Art

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