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Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

Sources xiii

Part I: Classic Sources

1 The Modern System of the Arts 3
Paul Oskar Kristeller

2 The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts 17
James O. Young

3 Ion 31
Plato

4 The Republic 39
Plato

5 Symposium 49
Plato

6 Poetics 57
Aristotle

7 Ennead I, vi 73
Plotinus

8 De Musica 81
St. Augustine

9 On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology 89
St. Bonaventure

10 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times 95
Third Earl of Shaftesbury

11 An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 105
Francis Hutcheson

12 Of the Standard of Taste 121
David Hume

13 Of Tragedy 131
David Hume

14 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 137
Edmund Burke

15 Laocoon 147
Gotthold Lessing

16 Critique of the Power of Judgment 155
Immanuel Kant

Part II: Modern Theories

17 Introduction 199
Christopher Janaway and Sandra Shapshay

18 Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man 205
Friedrich Schiller

19 Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre 209
J.-J. Rousseau

20 Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 217
G.W.F. Hegel

21 The World as Will and Representation 241
Arthur Schopenhauer

22 The Beautiful in Music 281
Eduard Hanslick

23 The Birth of Tragedy 287
Friedrich Nietzsche

24 What is Art? 299
Leo Tolstoy

25 “Psychical Distance” as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle 313
Edward Bullough

26 Art 331
Clive Bell

27 The Principles of Art 341
R.G. Collingwood

28 Art as Experience 357
John Dewey

29 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 379
Walter Benjamin

30 The Origin of the Work of Art 397
Martin Heidegger

31 Aesthetic Theory 411
Theodor Adorno

32 Criteria of Negro Art 423
W.E.B. Du Bois

33 Art or Propaganda? 429
Alain Locke

Part III: Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

34 Introduction 433
Stephanie Ross

35 The Artworld 439
Arthur Danto

36 What is Art? An Institutional Analysis 449
George Dickie

37 “Art” as a Cluster Concept 461
Berys Gaut

38 When is Art? 475
Nelson Goodman

39 Art and Its Objects 483
Richard Wollheim

40 Varieties of Art 497
Stephen Davies

41 What a Musical Work Is 513
Jerrold Levinson

42 Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts 529
Amie L. Thomasson

43 Aesthetic Concepts 535
Frank Sibley

44 Categories of Art 551
Kendall L. Walton

45 The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude 569
George Dickie

46 What is Aesthetic Experience? 581
Alan H. Goldman

47 Artistic Value 589
Malcolm Budd

48 Beauty Restored 597
Mary Mothersill

49 Artistic Worth and Personal Taste 609
Jerrold Levinson

50 Style and Personality in the Literary Work 619
Jenefer Robinson

51 Criticism and Interpretation 631
Noël Carroll

52 The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal 641
Alexander Nehamas

53 Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism 653
Eileen John

54 Emotions in the Music 663
Peter Kivy

55 Music and Emotions 673
Jenefer Robinson

56 Fearing Fictions 691
Kendall L. Walton

57 Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism 705
Kendall L. Walton

58 The Power of Movies 723
Noël Carroll

59 Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The “New” Aesthetics 737
Mary Devereaux

60 Feminist Philosophy of Art 751
A.W. Eaton

61 Appreciation and the Natural Environment 767
Allen Carlson

62 Everyday Aesthetics 777
Yuriko Saito

63 Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food 783
Carolyn Korsmeyer

64 Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature 791
Stephen Davies

Index 797

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      Publication Date: 20/05/2020
      ISBN13: 9781118948323, 978-1118948323
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Preface ix

      Acknowledgements xi

      Sources xiii

      Part I: Classic Sources

      1 The Modern System of the Arts 3
      Paul Oskar Kristeller

      2 The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts 17
      James O. Young

      3 Ion 31
      Plato

      4 The Republic 39
      Plato

      5 Symposium 49
      Plato

      6 Poetics 57
      Aristotle

      7 Ennead I, vi 73
      Plotinus

      8 De Musica 81
      St. Augustine

      9 On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology 89
      St. Bonaventure

      10 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times 95
      Third Earl of Shaftesbury

      11 An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 105
      Francis Hutcheson

      12 Of the Standard of Taste 121
      David Hume

      13 Of Tragedy 131
      David Hume

      14 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 137
      Edmund Burke

      15 Laocoon 147
      Gotthold Lessing

      16 Critique of the Power of Judgment 155
      Immanuel Kant

      Part II: Modern Theories

      17 Introduction 199
      Christopher Janaway and Sandra Shapshay

      18 Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man 205
      Friedrich Schiller

      19 Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre 209
      J.-J. Rousseau

      20 Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 217
      G.W.F. Hegel

      21 The World as Will and Representation 241
      Arthur Schopenhauer

      22 The Beautiful in Music 281
      Eduard Hanslick

      23 The Birth of Tragedy 287
      Friedrich Nietzsche

      24 What is Art? 299
      Leo Tolstoy

      25 “Psychical Distance” as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle 313
      Edward Bullough

      26 Art 331
      Clive Bell

      27 The Principles of Art 341
      R.G. Collingwood

      28 Art as Experience 357
      John Dewey

      29 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 379
      Walter Benjamin

      30 The Origin of the Work of Art 397
      Martin Heidegger

      31 Aesthetic Theory 411
      Theodor Adorno

      32 Criteria of Negro Art 423
      W.E.B. Du Bois

      33 Art or Propaganda? 429
      Alain Locke

      Part III: Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

      34 Introduction 433
      Stephanie Ross

      35 The Artworld 439
      Arthur Danto

      36 What is Art? An Institutional Analysis 449
      George Dickie

      37 “Art” as a Cluster Concept 461
      Berys Gaut

      38 When is Art? 475
      Nelson Goodman

      39 Art and Its Objects 483
      Richard Wollheim

      40 Varieties of Art 497
      Stephen Davies

      41 What a Musical Work Is 513
      Jerrold Levinson

      42 Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts 529
      Amie L. Thomasson

      43 Aesthetic Concepts 535
      Frank Sibley

      44 Categories of Art 551
      Kendall L. Walton

      45 The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude 569
      George Dickie

      46 What is Aesthetic Experience? 581
      Alan H. Goldman

      47 Artistic Value 589
      Malcolm Budd

      48 Beauty Restored 597
      Mary Mothersill

      49 Artistic Worth and Personal Taste 609
      Jerrold Levinson

      50 Style and Personality in the Literary Work 619
      Jenefer Robinson

      51 Criticism and Interpretation 631
      Noël Carroll

      52 The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal 641
      Alexander Nehamas

      53 Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism 653
      Eileen John

      54 Emotions in the Music 663
      Peter Kivy

      55 Music and Emotions 673
      Jenefer Robinson

      56 Fearing Fictions 691
      Kendall L. Walton

      57 Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism 705
      Kendall L. Walton

      58 The Power of Movies 723
      Noël Carroll

      59 Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The “New” Aesthetics 737
      Mary Devereaux

      60 Feminist Philosophy of Art 751
      A.W. Eaton

      61 Appreciation and the Natural Environment 767
      Allen Carlson

      62 Everyday Aesthetics 777
      Yuriko Saito

      63 Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food 783
      Carolyn Korsmeyer

      64 Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature 791
      Stephen Davies

      Index 797

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