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Aesthetics
A Comprehensive Anthology
Steven M. Cahn (Edited by), S Cahn (Author), Stephanie Ross (Edited by), Sandra L. Shapshay (Edited by)
9781118948323, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2020
848 pages
24.1 x 16.8 x 5.1 cm, 1.043 kg
A revised second edition of the bestselling anthology on the major figures and themes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, the ideal resource for a comprehensive introduction to the study of aesthetics Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology offers a well-rounded and thorough introduction to the evolution of modern thought on aesthetics. In a collection of over 60 readings, focused primarily on the Western tradition, this text includes works from key figures such as Plato, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Danto, and others. Broad in scope, this volume also contains contemporary works on the value of art, frequently-discussed continental texts, modern perspectives on feminist philosophy of art, and essays by authors outside of the community of academic philosophy, thereby immersing readers in an inclusive and balanced survey of aesthetics. The new second edition has been updated with contemporary essays, expanding the volume’s coverage to include the value of art, artistic worth and personal taste, questions of aesthetic experience, and contemporary debates on and 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 selection of texts initiates readers into the study of the foundations of and central developments in aesthetic thought.
Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Sources xiii Part I: Classic Sources 1 The Modern System of the Arts 3 2 The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts 17 3 Ion 31 4 The Republic 39 5 Symposium 49 6 Poetics 57 7 Ennead I, vi 73 8 De Musica 81 9 On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology 89 10 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times 95 11 An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 105 12 Of the Standard of Taste 121 13 Of Tragedy 131 14 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 137 15 Laocoon 147 16 Critique of the Power of Judgment 155 Part II: Modern Theories 17 Introduction 199 18 Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man 205 19 Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre 209 20 Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 217 21 The World as Will and Representation 241 22 The Beautiful in Music 281 23 The Birth of Tragedy 287 24 What is Art? 299 25 “Psychical Distance” as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle 313 26 Art 331 27 The Principles of Art 341 28 Art as Experience 357 29 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 379 30 The Origin of the Work of Art 397 31 Aesthetic Theory 411 32 Criteria of Negro Art 423 33 Art or Propaganda? 429 Part III: Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 34 Introduction 433 35 The Artworld 439 36 What is Art? An Institutional Analysis 449 37 “Art” as a Cluster Concept 461 38 When is Art? 475 39 Art and Its Objects 483 40 Varieties of Art 497 41 What a Musical Work Is 513 42 Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts 529 43 Aesthetic Concepts 535 44 Categories of Art 551 45 The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude 569 46 What is Aesthetic Experience? 581 47 Artistic Value 589 48 Beauty Restored 597 49 Artistic Worth and Personal Taste 609 50 Style and Personality in the Literary Work 619 51 Criticism and Interpretation 631 52 The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal 641 53 Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism 653 54 Emotions in the Music 663 55 Music and Emotions 673 56 Fearing Fictions 691 57 Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism 705 58 The Power of Movies 723 59 Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The “New” Aesthetics 737 60 Feminist Philosophy of Art 751 61 Appreciation and the Natural Environment 767 62 Everyday Aesthetics 777 63 Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food 783 64 Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature 791 Index 797
Paul Oskar Kristeller
James O. Young
Plato
Plato
Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
St. Augustine
St. Bonaventure
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
Francis Hutcheson
David Hume
David Hume
Edmund Burke
Gotthold Lessing
Immanuel Kant
Christopher Janaway and Sandra Shapshay
Friedrich Schiller
J.-J. Rousseau
G.W.F. Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
Eduard Hanslick
Friedrich Nietzsche
Leo Tolstoy
Edward Bullough
Clive Bell
R.G. Collingwood
John Dewey
Walter Benjamin
Martin Heidegger
Theodor Adorno
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alain Locke
Stephanie Ross
Arthur Danto
George Dickie
Berys Gaut
Nelson Goodman
Richard Wollheim
Stephen Davies
Jerrold Levinson
Amie L. Thomasson
Frank Sibley
Kendall L. Walton
George Dickie
Alan H. Goldman
Malcolm Budd
Mary Mothersill
Jerrold Levinson
Jenefer Robinson
Noël Carroll
Alexander Nehamas
Eileen John
Peter Kivy
Jenefer Robinson
Kendall L. Walton
Kendall L. Walton
Noël Carroll
Mary Devereaux
A.W. Eaton
Allen Carlson
Yuriko Saito
Carolyn Korsmeyer
Stephen Davies
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
