Aesthetics: The Classic Readings

Author:   David E. Cooper (University of Durham)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
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Pages:   368
Publication Date:   02 May 2019
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The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper’s popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The 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

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Author:   David E. Cooper (University of Durham)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781119116806


ISBN 10:   1119116805
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   02 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Plato, The Republic, Book 10 9 2 Aristotle, Poetics, Chapters 1–15 28 3 (A) Mo Tzu, “Against music” (B) Hsun Tzu, “A discussion of music” 44 4 Plotinus, Enneads, 1.6 55 5 (A) Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, from Books II and III (B) Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (Selections) 66 6 Shih‐t’ao, “Quotes on Painting” 77 7 David Hume, “Of the standard of taste” 89 8 Immanuel Kant, “Critique of aesthetic judgement,”Sections 1–14, 16, 23–4, 28 108 9 Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 26–7 139 10 G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to Aesthetics, Chapters 1–3 154 11 Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I, Section 52 168 12 (A) Walter Pater, The Renaissance, from Preface and Conclusion (B) Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying” (Selections) 183 13 Leo Tolstoy, “On art” 196 14 Clive Bell, “The aesthetic hypothesis” 210 15 A.K. Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Síva, Essays 3−4 227 16 Junichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (Selections) 243 17 John Dewey, Art as Experience, Chapters 1–2 257 18 Martin Heidegger, “The origin of the work of art,” from Lectures 1 and 2 280 19 R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art, Chapter 7 296 20 Ronald W. Hepburn, “Aesthetic appreciation of nature” 319 21 Arthur C. Danto, “The Artworld” 337 Index 353

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DAVID E. COOPER is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and has been a visiting professor at universities in the US, Canada, Malta, and Sri Lanka. His many books include Philosophy: The Classic Readings (Wiley Blackwell, 2009, edited with P.S. Fosl), World Philosophies: A Historical Introduction (Wiley Blackwell, Second Edition, 2002), Existentialism: A Reconstruction (Wiley Blackwell, Second Edition, 1999) and Animals and Misanthropy (2018).

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