Aesthetics A Comprehensive Anthology

Name: Aesthetics A Comprehensive Anthology
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ISBN: 9781405154352

ISBN-10: 1405154357

ISBN-13: 9781405154352

Edition: 2007

Authors: Steven M. Cahn, Aaron Meskin

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Thorough, systematic and flexible, this volume is an ideal guide to the field and makes an excellent textbook for a variety of courses in philosophical aesthetics.

Book details

List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.860



Aesthetics: Classic and Contemporary Readings


Edited by Cahn and Meskin


Preface



Historical Sources



The Modern System of the Arts




Ion: Plato



The Republic: Plato



Symposium: Plato



Poetics: Aristotle



Ennead I, vi: Plotinus



Of Music




On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology




Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Third Earl of Shaftesbury



Inquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue




Of the Standard of Taste




Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful




Laocoon




Critique of Judgment




Modern Theories



Introduction to Modern Theories




Letter of an Aesthetic Education of Man




Philosophy of Art




The Philosophy of Fine Art




The World as Will and Representation




The Beautiful in Music




The Birth of Tragedy




What is Art?




ï¿½Psychical Distanceï¿½ as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle




Art




Aesthetics




The Principles of Art




Art as Experience




Feeling and Form




The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction




The Origin of the Work of Art




Aesthetic Theory




Truth and Method




Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art



Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics




Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy




The Role of Theory in Aesthetics




The Artworld




What is Art? An Institutional Analysis




When is Art?




Identifying Art




The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude




Art and its Objects




What a Musical Work Is




Aesthetic Concepts




Beauty Restored




Categories of Art




Appreciation and the Natural Environment




The Intentional Fallacy




The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal




Art Intention and Conversation




The Ethical Criticism of Art




Expressive Properties of Art




Style and Personality in the Literary Work




Emotions in the Music




Fearing Fictions




Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers and the Gendered Spectator