A Companion to Aesthetics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Davies, Stephen; Cooper, David E.; Stecker, Robert; Hopkins, Robert; Higgins, Kathleen Marie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A COMPANION TO AESTHETICS 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444310429
• Artikelnr.: 37351597

Autorenporträt

Dr. Steve Davies is the Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in London. Previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University in Virginia. He joined IHS from the UK where he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. An historian, he graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984. He has authored several books, including Empiricism and History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and was co-editor with Nigel Ashford of The Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge, 1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors 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) Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics:
Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Continental Aesthetics: Robert Wicks (University of Auckland)
Twentieth-Century Anglo-American 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
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Rezensionen

"The range is phenomenal, the erudition daunting and the index rigorous. It is an essential purchase for all but the most tough-minded of academic reference collections and it would grace the shelves of many a public or personal library." Reference Reviews

"Academic libraries ... should not hesitate to acquire this important reference guide." Religion and Reference

"If one is looking for a good single-volume reference work on the history and concepts of predominantly Western aesthetics, then this is the one to get." (CHOICE, 2009)
"The range is phenomenal, the erudition daunting and the index rigorous. It is an essential purchase for all but the most tough-minded of academic reference collections and it would grace the shelves of many a public or personal library." (Reference Reviews)

"It provides very handy encyclopedic coverage of all main contemporary issues and figures in contemporary aesthetics.... It really must be bought by libraries as a reference text..." (British Society of Aesthetics Newsletter)