The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

704 Pages·2013·4.29 MB·english

by  Berys Gaut

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO AESTHETICS
The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over
sixtychapterswrittenbyleadinginternationalscholarscoveringallaspectsofaesthetics.
This Companion opens with a historical overview of aesthetics, including entries
on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault,
Goodman and Wollheim. The second part covers the central concepts and theories
of aesthetics, including definitions of art, taste, the value of art, beauty, imagination,
fiction, narrative, metaphor and pictorial representation. Part III is devoted to issues
and challanges in aesthetics, including art and ethics, art and religion, creativity,
environmentalaestheticsandfeministaesthetics.Thefinalpartaddressestheindividual
arts, including music, photography, film, videogames, literature, theater, dance, archi-
tectureanddesign.
With ten new entries, and revisions and updated suggestions for further reading
throughout, The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics is essential for anyone interested
in aesthetics, art, literature and visual studies.
Berys Gaut is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland,
and President of the British Society of Aesthetics. He is the author of Art, Emotion
and Ethics and A Philosophy of Cinematic Art, and coauthor, with Morag Gaut, of
Philosophy for Young Children: A Practical Guide (Routledge, 2011).
Dominic McIver Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of
Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and President of the
American Society of Aesthetics. He is the author of Understanding Pictures, Sight
andSensibility: EvaluatingPictures,A PhilosophyofComputer Art(Routledge, 2009) and
Beyond Art.
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– Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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–ThePhilosophicalQuarterly
“An outstanding resource in aesthetics … this text will not only serve as a handy
referencesourcefor students andfacultyalike, but itcould also be used as atext for
a course in the philosophy of art.”
– Australasian Journal of Philosophy
“Attests to the richness of modern aesthetics … the essays in central topics – many
of which are written by well-known figures – succeed in being informative, balanced
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION
TO AESTHETICS
Third Edition
Edited by
Berys Gaut and
Dominic McIver Lopes
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CONTENTS
Notes on contributors xiii
Preface xx
PART I
History of aesthetics 1
1 Plato 3
CHRISTOPHER JANAWAY
2 Aristotle 13
NICKOLAS PAPPAS
3 Medieval aesthetics 25
JOHN HALDANE
4 Empiricism: Hutcheson and Hume 36
JAMES SHELLEY
5 Kant 46
DONALD W. CRAWFORD
6 Hegel 56
MICHAEL INWOOD
7 Idealism: Schopenhauer, Schiller and Schelling 66
DALE JACQUETTE
8 Nietzsche 77
RUBEN BERRIOS AND AARON RIDLEY
9 Formalism 87
NOËL CARROLL
10 Pragmatism 96
RICHARD SHUSTERMAN
11 Expressivism: Croce and Collingwood 106
GORDON GRAHAM
12 Heidegger 116
THOMAS E. WARTENBERG
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