Aesthetics
Subtitle: the key thinkers
By: [edited by] Alessandro Giovannelli
Series: Key thinkers
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781441198785; 9781441187772; 9781441141545; 9781441180278
Subjects: Sources; Aesthetics; History
Description: Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st Century. The book reconstructs the history of aesthetics, clearly illustrating the most important attempts to address such crucial issues as the nature of aesthetic judgment, the status of art, and the place of the arts within society. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alessandro Giovannelli; title: Plato / Robert Stecker; title: Aristotle / Angela Curran; title: Medieval aesthetics / Gian Carlo Garfagnini; title: David Hume / Alan Goldman; title: Immanuel Kant / Elisabeth Schellekens; title: G.W.F. Hegel / Richard Eldridge; title: Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche / Scott Jenkins; title: Benedetto Croce and Robin Collingwood / Gary Kemp; title: Roger Fry and Clive Bell / Susan Feagin; title: John Dewey / Thomas Leddy; title: Martin Heidegger / Joseph Shieber; title: Walter Benjamin and T.W. Adorno / Gerhard Richter; title: Monroe Beardsley / Noël Carroll; title: Nelson Goodman / Alessandro Giovannelli; title: Richard A. Wollheim / Malcolm Budd; title: Arthur C. Danto / Sondra Bacharach; title: Kendall L. Walton / David Davies; title: Some contemporary developments / Alessandro Giovannelli.