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

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ISBN-10: 0226348121

ISBN-13: 9780226348124

Edition: 1976 (Reprint)

Authors: Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 728
Size: 0.52" wide x 0.82" long x 0.17" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Richard Kuhns is professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of works on the philosophical analysis of literature, including Tragedy: Contradiction and Repression; Psychoanalytic Theory of Art; Structures of Experience; and a study of Aeschylus's Oresteia.

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