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A Companion to Aesthetics
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
ISBN/EAN: 9781405169226
Umbreit-Nr.: 1822724
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 640 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 09.04.2009
Auflage: 2/2009
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeContributors Preface Historical Overviews Art of the Paleolithic: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham) Aesthetics in Antiquity: Stephen Halliwell (University of St. Andrews Medieval and Renaissance Aesthetics: John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge) EighteenthCentury Aesthetics: Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Continental Aesthetics: Robert Wicks (University of Auckland) TwentiethCentury AngloAmerican Aesthetics: Stephen Davies (University of Auckland) & Robert Stecker (Central Michigan University) The Arts Architecture: Edward Winters (West Dean College) Dance: Julie Van Camp (California State University-Long Beach) Drama: James Hamilton (Kansas State University) Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking: Patrick Maynard (University of Western Ontario (Emeritus)) Literature: David Davies (McGill University) Motion Pictures: Noël Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center) Music and Song: John Andrew Fisher (University of Colorado-Boulder) & Stephen Davies (University of Auckland) Opera: Paul Thom (University of Sydney) Photography: Patrick Maynard (University of Western Ontario (Emeritus Poetry: Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech University) Sculpture: Erik Koed (Independent Scholar) AZ Index
- Kurztext
- This second edition of A Companion to Aesthetics 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. 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. A Companion to Aesthetics 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.