Philosophies of art and beauty
Subtitle: selected readings in aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
By: edited by Albert Hofstadter and Richard Kuhns.
Contributors: Hofstadter, Albert.; Kuhns, Richard.
Edition: Phoenix edition.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 708
Description: This anthology [includes the editors'] essays [which] were translated especially for this volume, [and] also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection.... This volume [is] an aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation.... This collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions. It [is a] sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.
Notes: Originally published 1964.

In the 1976 edition, a later revised translation by Albert Hofstadter, of Heidegger's essay 'The origin of the work of art' has been substituted for the translation used in the original edition.