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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics / edited by Peter Kivy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell philosophy guides.
- Blackwell philosophy guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- Summary:
- The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music. Provides a guide to the central traditional and cutting edge issues in aesthetics today. Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, including Peter Kivy, George Dickie, Noël Carroll, Paul Guyer, Ted Cohen, Marcia Eaton, Joseph Margolis, Berys Gaut, Nicholas Wolt.
- Contents:
- The origins of modern aesthetics : 1711-1735 / Paul Guyer
- Defining art : intension and extension / George Dickie
- Art and the aesthetic / Marcia Muelder Eaton
- The ontology of art / Amie L. Thomasson
- Evaluating art / Alan Goldman
- Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern
- Art and the moral realm / Noel Carroll
- Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill
- The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen
- The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson
- The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen
- The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis
- The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut
- The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson
- The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott
- Tragedy / Susan Feagin
- The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. Crawford
- Art and the aesthetic : the religious dimension / Nicholas Wolterstorff.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- BAE 301
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78268-517-0
- 1-281-21369-1
- 9786611213695
- 1-4051-6470-0
- 1-4051-4306-1
- OCLC:
- 437147418
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