Classics in Western Philosophy of Art

Major Themes and Arguments

Noël Carroll

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781647920609
• eBook ISBN: 9781647920715
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy

In this synthetic introduction to the history of the philosophy of art, Noël Carroll elucidates and analyzes selected writings on art by Plato, Aristotle, Hutcheson, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, and Bell. Carroll's narrative tracks developments between major positions in philosophy of art, ranging from the idea that art is unavoidably embedded in society to the evolution of the notion that art is autonomous ("art for art's sake"), thereby setting the stage for continuing debates in the philosophy of art. Presupposing no prior background, and useful on its own or accompanying the reading of primary works, Classics in Western Philosophy of Art is ideal as a text for introductory undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of art and aesthetics, or for anyone interested in learning about the origin of some of our most fundamental conceptions of art in the Western tradition.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Why “Classic” and for Whom?
• Chapter 1: Plato’s Hippias Major, Ion, and Books 2, 3, and 10 of the Republic
• Chapter 2: Aristotle’s Poetics
• Chapter 3: Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, and Design
• Chapter 4: David Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste”
• Chapter 5: Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
• Chapter 6: G. W. F. Hegel’s Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
• Chapter 7: Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World As Will and Representation
• Chapter 8: Leo Tolstoy’s What Is Art?
• Chapter 9: Clive Bell’s Art
• Envoi
• Index