The Blackwell guide to aesthetics
By: edited by Peter Kivy.
Contributors: Kivy, Peter.
Series: Blackwell philosophy guides
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Aesthetics
Other titles: Guide to aesthetics
Description: "The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned essays on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and forms of art such as literature, movies, dance, and music. Written in clear and accessible prose by an assembly of some of the most distinguished philosophers of art, these essays develop the themes, discuss the problems, and evaluate the arguments of the main topics in the field. An excellent resource for students and scholars alike, this book provides a guide to the central, traditional questions as well as the cutting-edge issues in aesthetics today. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of modern aesthetics : 1711-35 / Paul Guyer; title: Defining art : intension and extension / George Dickie; title: Art and the aesthetic / Marcia Muelder Eaton; title: The ontology of art / Amie L. Thomasson; title: Evaluating art / Alan Goldman; title: Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern; title: Art and the moral realm / Noël Carroll; title: Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill; title: The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen; title: The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson; title: The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen; title: The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis; title: The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut; title: The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson; title: The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott; title: Tragedy / Susan Feagin; title: The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. Crawford; title: Art and the aesthetic : the religious dimension / Nicholas Wolterstorff.