The future of aesthetics
Subtitle: the 1996 Ryle lectures
By: Francis Sparshott.
Series: Toronto Studies in Philosophy
Publisher: University ofToronto Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Description: Addressing the nature and prospects of aesthetics as a discipline, Sparshott discusses beauty, taste, and the place of imagination, fiction, and fine art in societies. He investigates the place of the discipline in the broad social structures provided by universities and civilizations, and tackles many perennially interesting questions about education and the life of the mind.
Notes: Based on the 1996 Ryle lectures, delivered at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont, March, 1996.