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AESTHETICS A COMPREHENSIVE ANTHOLOGY The study of aesthetics is among the oldest areas of philosophical inquiry. Philosophers of all global traditions and historical eras have theorized about why we value art, the nature of beauty, and how we make aesthetic judgments and proclamations about works of art, artists, and artistic intent.
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology offers a well-rounded and thorough introduction to Anglo-American analytic aesthetics and the philosophy of art, beginning with the foundations of aesthetic philosophy in ancient tradition and charting a course through to modern art criticism and aesthetic thought. This large collection of over 60 readings balances contemporary commentaries from a wide range of influential thinkers in analytic aesthetics with representative samples of classic primary texts from their historical predecessors, including Plato, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, and others. Broad in scope, this anthology showcases recent scholarship on the value of art, excerpts from notable continental thinkers, and modern perspectives on feminist philosophy of art which contribute to an inclusive and balanced survey of the field. New to the second edition are contemporary essays which expand the volume's coverage to include the value of art, artistic worth and personal taste, questions of aesthetic experience, and contemporary debates on new theories of art. This edition also incorporates new and more standard translations of Kant's
Critique of the Power of Judgment and Schopenhauer's
The World as Will and Representation, as well as texts by Rousseau, Hegel, DuBois, Alain Locke, Budd, Robinson, Saito, Eaton and Levinson. Appropriate for both beginning and advanced students of philosophical aesthetics, this thoughtfully curated selection of essays initiates readers into the study of aesthetic thought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
STEVEN M. CAHN is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has authored or edited over 60 books. Most recently he wrote
Philosophical Adventures,
The Road Traveled and Other Essays, and
Inside Academia: Professors, Politics, and Policies.
STEPHANIE ROSS is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is the author of
What Gardens Mean and papers on a variety of topics in aesthetics. Her new book,
Two Thumbs Up: How Critics Aid Appreciation is forthcoming.
SANDRA SHAPSHAY is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY (City University of New York). She is the author of
Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare and has published on 18th-19th century theories of the sublime and tragedy as well as contemporary environmental aesthetics.
