Title: Philosophies of art and beauty ;
Authors: Hofstadter, Albert,; Kuhns, Richard,; Kuhns, Richard,; Hofstadter, Albert,
Date: 1964
Publisher: [Modern Library],
Physical description: xix, 701 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: A compilation of philosophical writings on aesthetics.
Contents: The Arts And Measure / Plato -- Imitative Art: Definition And Criticism / Plato -- Artistic Inspiration / Plato -- The Love Of Beauty / Plato -- What Is Art? / Aristotle -- Coming-to-Be And Artistic Production: Nature And Art / Aristotle -- Standard Of Artistic Goodness / Aristotle -- Beauty / Aristotle -- The Imitative Art Of Poetry / Aristotle -- Theory Of Music / Aristotle -- Ennead I, Sixth Tractate: Beauty / Plotinus -- Ennead V, Eighth Tractate: On the Intellectual Beauty / Plotinus -- Selections from Ennead VI, Seventh Tractate: Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms / Plotinus -- Selections from Ennead III, Eighth Tractate: Nature, Contemplation, and the One / Plotinus -- Selections from De Ordine / Augustine -- Selections from De Musica / Augustine -- Selections from Commentary on Plato's Symposium / Marsilio Ficino -- Selections from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times ... / Shaftesbury -- Selections from Second Characters or the Language of Forms / Shaftesbury -- Selections from Critique of Judgment / Immanuel Kant -- Selections from System of Transcendental Idealism / Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling -- Selections from The Philosophy of Fine Art / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Selections from The World as Will and Idea / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Selections from The Birth of Tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Selections from "Aesthetics" / Benedetto Croce -- Selection from Art as Experience / John Dewey -- The Origin of the Work of Art / Martin Heidegger.
Subject headings (LCSH): Aesthetics--Collections.; Aesthetics.