(P/B) AESTHETICS

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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. (From the publisher)

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Sources
Part I: Classic Sources
1. The Modern System of the Arts
Paul Oskar Kristeller
2. The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts
James O. Young
3. Ion
Plato
4. The Republic
Plato
5. Symposium
Plato
6. Poetics
Aristotle
7. Ennead I, vi
Plotinus
8. De Musica
St. Augustine
9. On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology
St. Bonaventure
10. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
11. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Francis Hutcheson
12. Of the Standard of Taste
David Hume
13. Of Tragedy
David Hume
14. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
15. Laocoon
Gotthold Lessing
16. Critique of the Power of Judgment
Immanuel Kant
Part II: Modern Theories
17. Introduction
Christopher Janaway and Sandra Shapshay
18. Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
Friedrich Schiller
19. Letter to M. d'Alembert on the Theatre
J.-J. Rousseau
20. Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
G.W.F. Hegel
21. The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer
22. The Beautiful in Music
Eduard Hanslick
23. The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
24. What is Art?
Leo Tolstoy
25. "Psychical Distance" as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle
Edward Bullough
26. Art
Clive Bell
27. The Principles of Art
R.G. Collingwood
28. Art as Experience
John Dewey
29. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
30. The Origin of the Work of Art
Martin Heidegger
31. Aesthetic Theory
Theodor Adorno
32. Criteria of Negro Art
W.E.B. Du Bois
33. Art or Propaganda?
Alain Locke
Part III: Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
34. Introduction
Stephanie Ross
35. The Artworld
Arthur Danto
36. What is Art? An Institutional Analysis
George Dickie
37. "Art" as a Cluster Concept
Berys Gaut
38. When is Art?
Nelson Goodman
39. Art and Its Objects
Richard Wollheim
40. Varieties of Art
Stephen Davies
41. What a Musical Work Is
Jerrold Levinson
42. Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts
Amie L. Thomasson
43. Aesthetic Concepts
Frank Sibley
44. Categories of Art
Kendall L. Walton
45. The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude
George Dickie
46. What is Aesthetic Experience?
Alan H. Goldman
47. Artistic Value
Malcolm Budd
48. Beauty Restored
Mary Mothersill
49. Artistic Worth and Personal Taste
Jerrold Levinson
50. Style and Personality in the Literary Work
Jenefer Robinson
51. Criticism and Interpretation
Noel Carroll
52. The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal
Alexander Nehamas
53. Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism
Eileen John
54. Emotions in the Music
Peter Kivy
55. Music and Emotions
Jenefer Robinson
56. Fearing Fictions
Kendall L. Walton
57. Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism
Kendall L. Walton
58. The Power of Movies
Noel Carroll
59. Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The "New" Aesthetics
Mary Devereaux
60. Feminist Philosophy of Art
A.W. Eaton
61. Appreciation and the Natural Environment
Allen Carlson
62. Everyday Aesthetics
Yuriko Saito
63. Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food
Carolyn Korsmeyer
64. Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature
Stephen Davies
Index