{"product_id":"a-companion-to-aesthetics-hardback-9781405169226","title":"A Companion to Aesthetics (Hardback) 9781405169226","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Aesthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Davies (Edited by), S Cooper (Author), Kathleen Marie Higgins (Edited by), Robert Hopkins (Edited by), Robert Stecker (Edited by), David E. Cooper (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405169226, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 April 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e640 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 17.8 x 4.1 cm, 1.247 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"If one is looking for a good single-volume reference work on the history and concepts of predominantly Western aesthetics, then this is the one to get.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE,\u003c\/i\u003e 2009)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \"The range is phenomenal, the erudition daunting and the index rigorous. It is an essential purchase for all but the most tough-minded of academic reference collections and it would grace the shelves of many a public or personal library.\" (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e)  \u003cp\u003e\"It provides very handy encyclopedic coverage of all main contemporary issues and figures in contemporary aesthetics.... It really must be bought by libraries as a reference text...\" (\u003ci\u003eBritish Society of Aesthetics Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO AESTHETICS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis second edition of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e examines questions that were among the earliest discussed by ancient philosophers, such as the nature of beauty and the relation between morality and art, while also addressing a host of new issues prompted by recent developments in the arts and in philosophy, including coverage of non-Western art traditions and of everyday and environmental aesthetics. The volume also canvases debates regarding the nature of representation, the relation between art and truth, and the criteria for interpretation, which are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary philosophy.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in aesthetics. Major additions include historical overviews from the prehistoric to the present and a section on the individual arts. \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e will serve students of philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies - as well as the educated general reader - both as a work of reference and, with its many substantial essays, as a guide to the best thinking about the arts from the ancient Greeks to the dawn of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Overviews 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eart of the Paleolithic Gregory Currie 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetics in antiquity Stephen Halliwell 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emedieval and renaissance aesthetics John Marenbon 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eeighteenth-century aesthetics Paul Guyer 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003enineteenth- and twentieth-century Continental aesthetics Robert Wicks 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etwentieth-century Anglo-American aesthetics Stephen Davies \u0026amp; Robert Stecker 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Arts 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003earchitecture Edward Winters 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edance Julie Van Camp 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edrama James Hamilton 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edrawing, painting, and printmaking Patrick Maynard 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eliterature David Davies 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emotion pictures Noël Carroll 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emusic and song John Andrew Fisher and Stephen Davies 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eopera Paul Thom 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ephotography Patrick Maynard 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epoetry Anna Christina Ribeiro 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esculpture Erik Koed 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eabstraction Robert Hopkins 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdorno, Theodor W(iesengrund) Paul Mattick 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetic attitude David E. Cooper 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetic education Pradeep A. Dhillon 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetic judgment Andrew Ward 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetic pleasure Jerrold Levinson 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetic properties Alan H. Goldman 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaestheticism David Whewell 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetics of food and drink Carolyn Korsmeyer 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetics of the environment Allen Carlson 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eaesthetics of the everyday Sherri Irvin 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican aesthetics John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerindian aesthetics Anthony K. Webster 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas, Thomas John Haldane 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle Stephen Halliwell 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eart history David Carrier 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eartifact, art as George Dickie \u0026amp; Robert Stecker 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“artworld” Anita Silvers 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eauthenticity and art Theodore Gracyk 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarthes, Roland Mary Bittner Wiseman 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBaumgarten, Alexander G(ottlieb) Nicholas Davey 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeardsley, Monroe C(urtis) Donald Callen 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebeauty Mary Mothersill 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBell, (Arthur) Clive (Heward) Ronald W. Hepburn 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin, Walter Martin Donougho 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBurke, Edmund Patrick Gardiner 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecanon Stein Haugom Olsen 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecatharsis Stephen Halliwell 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCavell, Stanley Timothy Gould 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecensorship Bernard Williams 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChinese aesthetics Marthe Chandler 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecognitive science and art William P. Seeley 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecognitive value of art Matthew Kieran 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollingwood, R(obin) G(eorge) Michael Krausz 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecomedy Noël Carroll 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003econceptual art Peter Goldie 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003econservation and restoration David Carrier 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecreativity Berys Gaut 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecritical monism and pluralism Robert Kraut 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecriticism Michael Weston 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCroce, Benedetto Douglas R. Anderson 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecultural appropriation James O. Young 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanto, Arthur C(oleman) David Novitz \u0026amp; Stephen Davies 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edeconstruction Stuart Sim 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edefinition of “art” Kathleen Stock 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeleuze, Gilles Nicholas Davey 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edepiction Katerina Bantinaki 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDerrida, Jacques Mary Bittner Wiseman 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDewey, John Thomas M. Alexander 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDickie, George Noël Carroll 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDufrenne, Mikel Wojciech Chojna \u0026amp; Irena Kocol 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eemotion Malcolm Budd 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eerotic art and obscenity Matthew Kieran 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eevolution, art, and aesthetics Stephen Davies 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eexpression Derek Matravers 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eexpression theory Derek Matravers 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eF 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efeminist aesthetics Peg Zeglin Brand 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efeminist criticism Renée Lorraine \u0026amp; Peg Zeglin Brand 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efeminist standpoint aesthetics A. W. Eaton 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efiction, nature of Robert Stecker 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efiction, the paradox of responding to Alex Neill 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efiction, truth in Paisley Livingston 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efictional entities Diane Proudfoot 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eforgery Robert Hopkins 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eformalism Nick Zangwill 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFoucault, Michel Robert Wicks 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efunction of art David Novitz 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eG 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGadamer, Hans-Georg Robert Bernasconi 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003egardens David E. Cooper 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003egenre Andrew Harrison 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGombrich, Sir Ernst (Hans Josef) David E. Cooper 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoodman, Nelson Catherine Z. Elgin 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eH 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHanslick, Eduard Malcolm Budd 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Gary Shapiro 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeidegger, Martin Robert Bernasconi 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ehermeneutics Joseph Margolis 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ehorror Amy Coplan 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHume, David Theodore Gracyk 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ehumor John Lippitt 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHutcheson, Francis Peter Kivy 338\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiconoclasm and idolatry David Freedberg 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eillusion Robert Hopkins 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eimagination Roger Scruton 346\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eimaginative resistance Tamar Szabó Gendler 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eimplied author Peter Lamarque 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndian aesthetics Kalyan Sen Gupta 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eineffability David E. Cooper 360\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIngarden, Roman Wojciech Chojna 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eintention and interpretation Colin Lyas \u0026amp; Robert Stecker 366\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“intentional fallacy” Colin Lyas \u0026amp; Robert Stecker 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003einterpretation Joseph Margolis 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003einterpretation, aims of David Davies 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eirony David E. Cooper 378\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslamic aesthetics Oliver Leaman 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ 384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJapanese aesthetics Yuriko Saito 384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eK 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKant, Immanuel David Whewell 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKierkegaard, Søren Ann Loades 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ekitsch Kathleen Marie Higgins 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKristeva, Julia Laura Marcus 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eL 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanger, Susanne Thomas M. Alexander 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLessing, Gotthold Ephraim Anthony Savile 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLewis, C(larence) I(rving) Paisley Livingston 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLukács, Georg Tom Rockmore 408\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eM 411\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargolis, Joseph Richard Shusterman 411\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxism and art Tom Rockmore 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emass art Noël Carroll 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emeaning constructivism Robert Stecker 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMerleau-Ponty, Maurice John J. Compton 421\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emetaphor Samuel R. Levin 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emodernism and postmodernism Stuart Sim 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emorality and art Berys Gaut 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emuseums Paul Mattick 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eN 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003enarrative Stein Haugom Olsen 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNietzsche, Friedrich (Wilhelm) Julian Young 438\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003enotations Stephen Davies 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eO 444\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eobjectivity and realism in aesthetics Robert Hopkins 444\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eontological contextualism Theodore Gracyk 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eontology of artworks Nicholas Wolterstorff 453\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eoriginality George Bailey 457\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eP 460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eperformance Stephen Davies 460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eperformance art David Davies 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eperspective John Hyman 465\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epicture perception Katerina Bantinaki 469\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato Stephen Halliwell 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlotinus John Haldane 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epopular art Richard Shusterman 476\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epornography Bernard Williams 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epragmatist aesthetics Richard Shusterman 480\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epsychoanalysis and art Kathleen Marie Higgins 484\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eR 489\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003erace and aesthetics Monique Roelofs 489\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003erasa Kathleen Marie Higgins 492\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003erealism John Hyman 495\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003erelativism Nicholas Davey 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ereligion and art Robert Grant 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003erepresentation Robert Hopkins 504\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRuskin, John Michael Wheeler 508\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eS 511\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSantayana, George Morris Grossman 511\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSartre, Jean-Paul John J. Compton 512\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Andrew Bowie 514\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von Margaret Paton 517\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchlegel, August Wilhelm von Tom Rockmore 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchlegel, Friedrich von Tom Rockmore 520\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchopenhauer, Arthur Michael Tanner 522\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003escience and art Anthony O’Hear 525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScruton, Roger Anthony O’Hear 528\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esenses and art, the Robert Hopkins 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esentimentality Deborah Knight 534\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShaftesbury, Lord Dabney Townsend 537\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSibley, Frank Noel Colin Lyas 538\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003estructuralism and poststructuralism Stuart Sim 540\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003estyle Andrew Harrison 544\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esublime Mary Mothersill 547\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esymbol Charles Molesworth 551\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eT 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etaste Robert Hopkins 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etechnology and art John Andrew Fisher 556\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etestimony in aesthetics Robert Hopkins 560\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etext Richard Shusterman 562\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etheories of art Ronald W. Hepburn 565\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTolstoy, Leo David Whewell 570\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etradition Anthony O’Hear 573\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etragedy Susan L. Feagin 575\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etruth in art Eddy M. Zemach 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003euniversals in art Kathleen Marie Higgins 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWagner, Richard Michael Tanner 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalton, Kendall L(ewis) Alessandro Giovannelli 588\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilde, Oscar David E. 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