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Aesthetics: The Classic Readings

Aesthetics: The Classic Readings

Publisher Wiley & Sons
Year
Pages 368
Version paperback
Language English
ISBN 9781119116806
Categories Philosophy: aesthetics
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The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper's popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporaryThe second edition of this bestselling anthology collects essays of canonical significance in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, featuring a wide range of topics from the nature of beauty and the criteria for aesthetic judgement to the value of art and the appreciation of nature.* Includes texts by classical philosophers like Plato and Kant alongside essays from art critics like Clive Bell, with new readings from Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Ronald W. Hepburn, and Arthur C. Danto among others* Intersperses philosophical scholarship with diverse contributions from artists, poets, novelists, and critics* Broadens the scope of aesthetics beyond the Western tradition, including important texts by Asian philosophers from Mo Tzu to Tanizaki* Includes a fully-updated introduction to the discipline written by the editor, as well as prefaces to each text and chapter-specific lists of further reading

Aesthetics: The Classic Readings

Table of contents

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 Plato, The Republic, Book 10 92 Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 1-15 283 (A) Mo Tzu, "Against music"(B) Hsun Tzu, "A discussion of music" 444 Plotinus, Enneads, 1.6 555 (A) Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, from Books II and III(B) Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (Selections) 666 Shih-t'ao, "Quotes on Painting" 777 David Hume, "Of the standard of taste" 898 Immanuel Kant, "Critique of aesthetic judgement,"Sections 1-14, 16, 23-4, 28 1089 Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 26-7 13910 G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to Aesthetics, Chapters 1-3 15411 Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I, Section 52 16812 (A) Walter Pater, The Renaissance, from Preface and Conclusion(B) Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying" (Selections) 18313 Leo Tolstoy, "On art" 19614 Clive Bell, "The aesthetic hypothesis" 21015 A.K. Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Siva, Essays 3.4 22716 Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (Selections) 24317 John Dewey, Art as Experience, Chapters 1-2 25718 Martin Heidegger, "The origin of the work of art," from Lectures 1 and 2 28019 R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art, Chapter 7 29620 Ronald W. Hepburn, "Aesthetic appreciation of nature" 31921 Arthur C. Danto, "The Artworld" 337Index 353

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