Aesthetics
A Comprehensive Anthology
by Steven M. Cahn, Stephanie Ross, Sandra L. Shapshay
2nd Edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781118948323 |
| eText ISBN | 9781118952429 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publishing Year | 2020 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 848 |
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology, 2nd Edition, introduces foundational questions and major historical developments in aesthetic thought. Through more than 60 readings focused primarily on the Western tradition, the anthology brings together foundational philosophical works alongside continental philosophy and feminist perspectives on art.
The volume examines classical concepts of beauty, modern aesthetic theories, and the nature of art. Selections include writings by Plato, Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche, as well as essays by authors from outside academic philosophy.
Intended for beginning and advanced students of philosophical aesthetics, the 2020 edition added essays on everyday and environmental aesthetics, evolutionary theories, and the relationship between aesthetics and ethics.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Modern System of the Arts
Chapter 2: The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts
Chapter 3: Ion
Chapter 4: The Republic
Chapter 5: Symposium
Chapter 6: Poetics
Chapter 7: Ennead I, vi
Chapter 8: De Musica
Chapter 9: On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology
Chapter 10: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Chapter 11: An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Chapter 12: Of the Standard of Taste
Chapter 13: Of Tragedy
Chapter 14: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Chapter 15: Laocoon
Chapter 16: Critique of the Power of Judgment
Chapter 17: Introduction
Chapter 18: Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
Chapter 19: Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre
Chapter 20: Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Chapter 21: The World as Will and Representation
Chapter 22: The Beautiful in Music
Chapter 23: The Birth of Tragedy
Chapter 24: What is Art?
Chapter 25: “Psychical Distance” as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle
Chapter 26: Art
Chapter 27: The Principles of Art
Chapter 28: Art as Experience
Chapter 29: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Chapter 30: The Origin of the Work of Art
Chapter 31: Aesthetic Theory
Chapter 32: Criteria of Negro Art
Chapter 33: Art or Propaganda?
Chapter 34: Introduction
Chapter 35: The Artworld
Chapter 36: What is Art? An Institutional Analysis
Chapter 37: “Art” as a Cluster Concept
Chapter 38: When is Art?
Chapter 39: Art and Its Objects
Chapter 40: Varieties of Art
Chapter 41: What a Musical Work Is
Chapter 42: Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts
Chapter 43: Aesthetic Concepts
Chapter 44: Categories of Art
Chapter 45: The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude
Chapter 46: What is Aesthetic Experience?
Chapter 47: Artistic Value
Chapter 48: Beauty Restored
Chapter 49: Artistic Worth and Personal Taste
Chapter 50: Style and Personality in the Literary Work
Chapter 51: Criticism and Interpretation
Chapter 52: The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal
Chapter 53: Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism
Chapter 54: Emotions in the Music
Chapter 55: Music and Emotions
Chapter 56: Fearing Fictions
Chapter 57: Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism
Chapter 58: The Power of Movies
Chapter 59: Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The “New” Aesthetics
Chapter 60: Feminist Philosophy of Art
Chapter 61: Appreciation and the Natural Environment
Chapter 62: Everyday Aesthetics
Chapter 63: Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food
Chapter 64: Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature
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