Aesthetics : a comprehensive anthology
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Aesthetics : a comprehensive anthology
（Blackwell philosophy anthologies, 29）
Wiley Blackwell, 2020
2nd ed
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Previous ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
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A revised second edition of the bestselling anthology on the major figures and themes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, the ideal resource for a comprehensive introduction to the study of aesthetics
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology offers a well-rounded and thorough introduction to the evolution of modern thought on aesthetics. In a collection of over 60 readings, focused primarily on the Western tradition, this text includes works from key figures such as Plato, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Danto, and others. Broad in scope, this volume also contains contemporary works on the value of art, frequently-discussed continental texts, modern perspectives on feminist philosophy of art, and essays by authors outside of the community of academic philosophy, thereby immersing readers in an inclusive and balanced survey of aesthetics.
The new second edition has been updated with contemporary essays, expanding the volume's coverage to include the value of art, artistic worth and personal taste, questions of aesthetic experience, and contemporary debates on and new theories of art. This edition also incorporates new and more standard translations of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment and Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, as well as texts by Rousseau, Hegel, DuBois, Alain Locke, Budd, Robinson, Saito, Eaton and Levinson.
Presents a comprehensive selection of introductory readings on aesthetics and philosophy of art
Helps readers gain a deep historical understanding and clear perspective on contemporary questions in the field
Offers new essays specifically selected to promote inclusivity and to highlight contemporary discussions
Introduces new essays on topics such as environmental and everyday aesthetics, evolutionary aesthetics, and the connections between aesthetics and ethics
Appropriate for both beginning and advanced students of philosophical aesthetics, this selection of texts initiates readers into the study of the foundations of and central developments in aesthetic thought.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Sources xiii
Part I: Classic Sources
1 The Modern System of the Arts 3
Paul Oskar Kristeller
2 The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts 17
James O. Young
3 Ion 31
Plato
4 The Republic 39
Plato
5 Symposium 49
Plato
6 Poetics 57
Aristotle
7 Ennead I, vi 73
Plotinus
8 De Musica 81
St. Augustine
9 On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology 89
St. Bonaventure
10 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times 95
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
11 An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 105
Francis Hutcheson
12 Of the Standard of Taste 121
David Hume
13 Of Tragedy 131
David Hume
14 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 137
Edmund Burke
15 Laocoon 147
Gotthold Lessing
16 Critique of the Power of Judgment 155
Immanuel Kant
Part II: Modern Theories
17 Introduction 199
Christopher Janaway and Sandra Shapshay
18 Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man 205
Friedrich Schiller
19 Letter to M. d'Alembert on the Theatre 209
J.-J. Rousseau
20 Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 217
G.W.F. Hegel
21 The World as Will and Representation 241
Arthur Schopenhauer
22 The Beautiful in Music 281
Eduard Hanslick
23 The Birth of Tragedy 287
Friedrich Nietzsche
24 What is Art? 299
Leo Tolstoy
25 "Psychical Distance" as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle 313
Edward Bullough
26 Art 331
Clive Bell
27 The Principles of Art 341
R.G. Collingwood
28 Art as Experience 357
John Dewey
29 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 379
Walter Benjamin
30 The Origin of the Work of Art 397
Martin Heidegger
31 Aesthetic Theory 411
Theodor Adorno
32 Criteria of Negro Art 423
W.E.B. Du Bois
33 Art or Propaganda? 429
Alain Locke
Part III: Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
34 Introduction 433
Stephanie Ross
35 The Artworld 439
Arthur Danto
36 What is Art? An Institutional Analysis 449
George Dickie
37 "Art" as a Cluster Concept 461
Berys Gaut
38 When is Art? 475
Nelson Goodman
39 Art and Its Objects 483
Richard Wollheim
40 Varieties of Art 497
Stephen Davies
41 What a Musical Work Is 513
Jerrold Levinson
42 Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts 529
Amie L. Thomasson
43 Aesthetic Concepts 535
Frank Sibley
44 Categories of Art 551
Kendall L. Walton
45 The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude 569
George Dickie
46 What is Aesthetic Experience? 581
Alan H. Goldman
47 Artistic Value 589
Malcolm Budd
48 Beauty Restored 597
Mary Mothersill
49 Artistic Worth and Personal Taste 609
Jerrold Levinson
50 Style and Personality in the Literary Work 619
Jenefer Robinson
51 Criticism and Interpretation 631
Noel Carroll
52 The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal 641
Alexander Nehamas
53 Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism 653
Eileen John
54 Emotions in the Music 663
Peter Kivy
55 Music and Emotions 673
Jenefer Robinson
56 Fearing Fictions 691
Kendall L. Walton
57 Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism 705
Kendall L. Walton
58 The Power of Movies 723
Noel Carroll
59 Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The "New" Aesthetics 737
Mary Devereaux
60 Feminist Philosophy of Art 751
A.W. Eaton
61 Appreciation and the Natural Environment 767
Allen Carlson
62 Everyday Aesthetics 777
Yuriko Saito
63 Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food 783
Carolyn Korsmeyer
64 Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature 791
Stephen Davies
Index 797
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