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Aesthetics : the key thinkers / edited by Alessandro Giovannelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Continuum key thinkers.
- Key thinkers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--History--Sources.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Alessandro Giovannelli
- Plato
- Robert Stecker
- Aristotle
- Angela Curran
- Medieval aesthetics
- Gian Carlo Garfagnini
- David Hume
- Alan H. Goldman
- Immanuel Kant
- Elisabeth Schellekens
- G.W.F. Hegel
- Richard Eldridge
- Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche
- Scott Jenkins
- Benedetto Croce and Robin G. Collingwood
- Gary Kemp
- Roger Fry and Clive Bell
- Susan Feagin
- John Dewey
- Thomas Leddy
- Martin Heidegger
- Joseph Shieber
- Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno
- Gerhard Richter
- Monroe Beardsley
- Noël Carroll
- Nelson Goodman
- Richard A. Wollheim
- Malcolm Budd
- Arthur C. Danto
- Sondra Bacharach
- Kendall L. Walton
- David Davies
- Some contemporary developments
- Alessandro Giovannelli.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472545404
- 1472545400
- 9781441180278
- 1441180273
- OCLC:
- 880457747
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