Aesthetics Classic Readings from the Western Tradition

Name: Aesthetics Classic Readings from the Western Tradition
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ISBN: 9780534551469

ISBN-10: 0534551467

ISBN-13: 9780534551469

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Dabney Townsend

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This anthology is a collection of basic readings for beginning students, chosen to illustrate the major movements in the history, development and nature of aesthetics. Selections of major importance are drawn from the period of the Greeks to the mid-twentieth century. Every section introduction includes an historical overview of each period, biographical information, and a brief analysis of key concepts. The editor designed this anthology to be of sufficient length for use as the sole text in a one quarter course, yet brief enough to invite the use of additional materials in longer courses.

Book details

List price: $149.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 4/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.33" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface



Classical and Medieval Aesthetics


Plato


From Republic, Book X


Aristotle


From Poetics


Plotinus


Ennead One, Sixth Tractate


Bonaventure


Retracing the Arts to Theology


Dante


Letter Ten


Passages for Discussion



Modern Aesthetics



The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries


Francis Hutcheson


From An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue


David Hume


Of the Standard of Taste


Immanuel Kant


From Critique of Judgment



Passages for Discussion



The Nineteenth Century


G. W. F. Hegel


From The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences


Arthur Schopenhauer


From The World as Will and Idea


Friedrich Nietzsche


From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music


John Ruskin


From Modern Painters


Leo Tolstoy


From What Is Art?



Passages for Discussion



The Turn of the Century


Benedetto Croce


From Aesthetic


Edward Bullough


From "Psychical Distance" as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle


Clive Bell


From Art



Passages for Discussion



Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century


Walter Benjamin


From The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction


Morris Weitz


The Role of Theory in Aesthetics


George Dickie


The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude


Arthur Danto


The Artworld


Passages for Discussion


Sources


Glossary


Index