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Companion to Aesthetics

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ISBN-10: 1405169222

ISBN-13: 9781405169226

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Stephen Davies, David E. Cooper, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker

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List price: $73.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/9/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English

#60;b#62;David E. Cooper#60;/b#62; is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Durham University. His many books include #60;i#62;World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction#60;/i#62; (Blackwell, 1996, 2002); #60;i#62;Existentialism: A Reconstruction#60;/i#62; (Blackwell, 1990, 1999); #60;i#62;and The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility and Mystery#60;/i#62; (2002).#60;br#62;#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Peter S. Fosl#60;/b#62; is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University. Recipient of the 2006 Acorn Award for Kentucky's outstanding university professor of the year, Fosl is co-author with Julian Baggini of #60;i#62;The Ethics Toolkit#60;/i#62; (Blackwell, 2007) #60;i#62;and The…    

Contributors
Preface
Historical Overviews
Art of the Paleolithic
Aesthetics in Antiquity
Medieval and Renaissance Aesthetics
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Continental Aesthetics
Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Aesthetics
The Arts
Architecture
Dance
Drama
Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking
Literature
Motion Pictures
Music and Song
Opera
Photography
Poetry
Sculpture
Abstraction
Adorno, Theodor W(iesengrund)
Aesthetic Attitude
Aesthetic Education
Aesthetic Judgment
Aesthetic Pleasure
Aesthetic Properties
Aestheticism
Aesthetics of Food and Drink
Aesthetics of the Environment
Aesthetics of the Everyday
African Aesthetics
Amerindian Aesthetics
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Art History
Artifact, Art as
"Artworld"
Authenticity and Art
Barthes, Roland
Baumgarten
Beardsley, Monroe C(urtis)
Beauty
Bell, (Arthur) Clive (Heward)
Benjamin, Walter
Burke, Edmund
Canon
Catharsis
Cavell, Stanley
Censorship
Chinese Aesthetics
Cognitive Science and Art
Cognitive Value of Art
Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge)
Comedy: No�l Carroll
Conceptual Art
Conservation and Restoration
Creativity
Critical Monism and Pluralism
Criticism
Croce, Benedetto
Cultural Appropriation
Danto, Arthur C(oleman)
Deconstruction
Definition of "Art"
Deleuze, Gilles
Depiction
Derrida, Jacques
Dewey, John
Dickie, George
Dufrenne, Mikel
Emotion
Erotic Art and Obscenity
Evolution, Art, and Aesthetics
Expression
Expression Theory
Feminist Aesthetics
Feminist Criticism: Ren�e Lorraine
Feminist Standpoint Aesthetics: A. W. Eaton
Fiction, Nature of
Fiction, the Paradox of Responding to
Fiction, Truth in
Fictional Entities
Forgery
Formalism
Foucault, Michel
Function of Art
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
Gardens
Genre
Gombrich, Sir Ernst
Goodman, Nelson
Hanslick, Eduard
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
Hermeneutics
Horror
Hume, David
Humor
Hutcheson, Francis
Iconoclasm and Idolatry
Illusion
Imagination
Imaginative Resistance
Implied Author
Indian Aesthetics
Ineffability
Ingarden, Roman
Intention and Interpretation
"Intentional Fallacy"
Interpretation
Interpretation, Aims of
Irony
Islamic Aesthetics
Japanese Aesthetics
Kant, Immanuel
Kierkegaard, S�ren
Kitsch
Kristeva, Julia
Langer, Susanne
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lewis, C(Larence) I(Rving)
Luk�cs, Georg
Margolis, Joseph
Marxism and Art
Mass Art
Meaning Constructivism
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Metaphor
Modernism and Postmodernism
Morality and Art
Museums
Narrative
Nietzsche, Friedrich (Wilhelm)
Notations
Objectivity and Realism in Aesthetics
Ontological Contextualism
Ontology of Artworks
Originality
Performance
Performance Art
Perspective
Picture Perception
Plato
Plotinus
Popular Art
Pornography
Pragmatist Aesthetics
Psychoanalysis and Art
Race and Aesthetics
Rasa
Realism
Relativism
Religion and Art
Representation
Ruskin, John
Santayana, George
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von
Schiller,
Schlegel, August Wilhelm Von
Schlegel, Friedrich Von
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Science and Art
Scruton, Roger
Senses and Art, the
Sentimentality
Shaftesbury, Lord
Sibley, Frank Noel
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Style
Sublime
Symbol
Taste
Technology and Art
Testimony in Aesthetics
Text
Theories of Art
Tolstoy
Tradition
Tragedy
Truth in Art
Universals in Art
Walton
Wilde, Oscar
Wittgenstein
Wollheim
Index