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Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers Continuum Key Thinkers The Key Thinkers series is aimed at undergraduate students and offers clear, concise and accessible edited guides to the key thinkers in each of the central topics in philosophy. Each book offers a comprehensive overview of the major thinkers who have contributed to the historical development of a key area of philosophy, providing a survey of their major works and the evolution of the central ideas in that area. Key Thinkers in Philosophy available now from Continuum: Epistemology , edited by Stephen Hetherington Ethics , edited by Tom Angier Philosophy of Language , edited by Barry Lee Philosophy of Religion , edited by Jeffrey J. Jordan Philosophy of Science , edited by James Robert Brown Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers Edited by Alessandro Giovannelli Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Alessandro Giovannelli and Contributors 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing- in-P ublication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. EISBN: 978- 1- 4411-8027-8 Library of Congress Cataloging- in-P ublication Data Aesthetics : the key thinkers / [edited by] Alessandro Giovannelli. p. cm. – (Key thinkers) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4411-9878-5 (hardcover) – ISBN 978-1-4411-8777-2 (pbk.) – ISBN 978-1-4411-4154-5 (ePub) – ISBN 978-1-4411-8027-8 (PDF) 1. Aesthetics– History–Sources. I. Giovannelli, Alessandro. II. Title. III. Series. BH81.A39 2011 111’.8509–dc23 2011028614 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in India Contents Notes on Contributors v ii Introduction 1 Alessandro Giovannelli 1. Plato 8 Robert Stecker 2. Aristotle 21 Angela Curran 3. Medieval Aesthetics 3 4 Gian Carlo Garfagnini 4. David Hume 4 8 Alan H. Goldman 5. Immanuel Kant 61 Elisabeth Schellekens 6. G. W. F. Hegel 75 Richard Eldridge 7. Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche 8 6 Scott Jenkins 8. Benedetto Croce and Robin G. Collingwood 100 Gary Kemp 9. Roger Fry and Clive Bell 113 Susan Feagin vi Contents 10. John Dewey 126 Thomas Leddy 11. Martin Heidegger 139 Joseph Shieber 12. Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno 1 46 Gerhard Richter 13. Monroe Beardsley 160 Noël Carroll 14. Nelson Goodman 166 Alessandro Giovannelli 15. Richard A. Wollheim 181 Malcolm Budd 16. Arthur C. Danto 189 Sondra Bacharach 17. Kendall L. Walton 197 David Davies 18. Some Contemporary Developments 207 Alessandro Giovannelli Index 2 31 Notes on Contributors Sondra B acharach is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). She has published articles and book chap- ters on collaborative artistic authorship, the role of historical context in art interpretation and individuation, and philosophy in film. Malcolm Budd is Emeritus Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UK), Fellow of the British Academy, and President of the British Society of Aesthetics. His most recent books are T he Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature and A esthetic Essays . Noël C arroll i s Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (USA), and past President of the American Society for Aesthetics. His long list of books and articles includes his most recent A rt in Three Dimensions . Angela Curran is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Carleton College (USA). She has coedited T he Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings and is currently working on t he Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics. David D avies i s Professor of Philosophy at McGill University (Canada). He has published widely in aesthetics, especially on issues in philosophy of film, photography, literature, and the visual arts. He is the author of Art as Performance , Aesthetics and Literature , and P hilosophy of the Performing Arts . Richard E ldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College (USA). His most recent books are Literature, Life, and Modernity and the coedited collection Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism: Consequences of Skepticism (Continuum). viii Contributors Susan Feagin is Research Professor of Philosophy at Temple University (USA) and Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism . She has published many journal articles and book chapters, and is the author of Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation . Gian Carlo G arfagnini is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Florence (Italy) and Vice- President of the Italian Dante Society. He has authored numerous articles, focusing especially on the relationship between ethics and politics between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Alessandro G iovannelli i s Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lafayette College (USA). He has published articles and book chapters on the imagi- native engagement with characters, art and ethics, and the philosophy of film and literature. Alan H. Goldman is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary (USA). His most recent books are: Aesthetic Value ; Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don’t ; and R easons from Within: Desires and Values . Scott J enkins i s Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas (USA). His major research interests are Kant, German Idealism, and Nietzsche, on all of which he has published several articles. Gary K emp is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (UK). He mainly works in philosophy of logic and language but has a serious interest in aesthetics. His latest book is the forthcoming Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference and Meaning . Thomas L eddy i s Professor of Philosophy at San José State University (USA). He is the author of many articles and contributions, focusing on art interpretation, creativity, the aesthetics of architecture, pragmatist aesthetics, and the aesthetics of the everyday. Gerhard Richter is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Brown University (USA). His most recent book, titled Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics , is forthcoming. Elisabeth Schellekens is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham (UK) and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics . She has published her A esthetics and Morality with Continuum and is coauthor (with Peter Goldie) of W ho’s Afraid of Conceptual Art . Contributors ix Joseph Shieber is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lafayette College (USA). He has published articles and book chapters in episte- mology, philosophy of language, the history of modern philosophy, and the history of twentieth-c entury analytic philosophy. Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University (USA). His numerous publications include the books: A rtworks: Definition, Meaning, Value ; I nterpretation and Construction: Art, Speech, and the Law ; and A esthetics and Philosophy of Art .
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