Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers
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Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

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Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

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Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st Century.

The book reconstructs the history of aesthetics, clearly illustrating the most important attempts to address such crucial issues as the nature of aesthetic judgment, the status of art, and the place of the arts within society. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781441187772
eBook ISBN
9781441180278
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Aesthetics in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER 1 PLATO (c. 427–347 BCE)
  9. CHAPTER 2 ARISTOTLE (384–322 BCE)
  10. CHAPTER 3 MEDIEVAL AESTHETICS
  11. CHAPTER 4 DAVID HUME (1711–1776)
  12. CHAPTER 5 IMMANUEL KANT (1724–1804)
  13. CHAPTER 6 G. W. F. HEGEL (1770–1831)
  14. CHAPTER 7 ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788–1860) AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844–1900)
  15. CHAPTER 8 BENEDETTO CROCE (1866–1952) AND ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD (1889–1943)
  16. CHAPTER 9 ROGER FRY (1866–1934) AND CLIVE BELL (1881–1964)
  17. CHAPTER 10 JOHN DEWEY (1859–1952)
  18. CHAPTER 11 MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889–1976)
  19. CHAPTER 12 WALTER BENJAMIN (1892–1940) AND THEODOR W. ADORNO (1903–1969)
  20. CHAPTER 13 MONROE BEARDSLEY (1915–1985)
  21. CHAPTER 14 NELSON GOODMAN (1906–1998)
  22. CHAPTER 15 RICHARD A. WOLLHEIM (1923–2003)
  23. CHAPTER 16 ARTHUR C. DANTO (b. 1924)
  24. CHAPTER 17 KENDALL L. WALTON (b. 1939)
  25. CHAPTER 18 SOME CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS
  26. Index

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