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Informationen zum Autor Monroe C. Beardsley (1915-1985) work in aesthetics is best known for its championing of the instrumentalist theory of art and the concept of aesthetic experience. He was elected president of the American Society for Aesthetics in 1956. He also wrote an introductory text on aesthetics and edited a well-regarded survey of anthology of philosophy. He is also the author of The Aesthetic Point of View: Selected Essays and The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche . Klappentext At once a treatise for professionals and a guide for newcomers to the subject, Aesthetics is ideal both as an introductory survey of the literature on theories of art and beauty from earliest times to the present and as a text for courses in the philosophy of art. The author examines all major aspects of Western aesthetic thought, and a third of the book focuses specifically on 19th-and-20th century aesthetic theory. Zusammenfassung Beardsley's book … It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before.... The distinguishing feature of his book is an excitement over everything I aesthetics that has to do with symbols, meanings, language, and modes of interpretation."" - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 First thoughts. Part 2 Plato: art and imitation; beauty; morality; bibliography. Part 3 Aristotle: the proper pleasure of tragedy; Aristotle's answer to Plato. Part 4 The later classical philosophers: Hellenism and Roman Catholicism; Plotinus. Part 5 The Middle Ages: St Augustine; St Thomas Aquinas; the theory of interpretation. Part 6 The Renaissance: Neoplatonism; theory of painting; music and poetry. Part 7 The Enlightenment: Cartesian rationalism: poetics; theory of painting and music; toward a unified aesthetics. Part 8 The Enlightenment: empiricism - imagination and artistic creation; the problem of taste - Shaftsbury to Hume; the aesthetic qualities - Hogarth to Alison. Part 9 German idealism: Immanuel Kant; objective idealism. Part 10 Romanticism: the aesthetics of feeling; theories of the imagination; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Part 11 The artist and society: art for art's sake; realism; social responsibility. Part 12 Contemporary developments: Croce and the metaphysicians; Santayana and Dewey; semiotic approaches; Marxism-Leninism; phenomenology and existentialism; empiricism. ...
