Overview

This is the first volume to be published in an exciting new series of classic collections in philosophy.

Full Product Details

Author:   David E. Cooper (University of Durham)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780631195689

ISBN 10:   0631195688
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 October 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Series Preface. Introduction. 1. Republic, Book 10: Plato. 2. Poetics, Chapters 1-13: Aristotle. 3. Against Music:Mo Tzu. A Discussion of Music: Hsun Tzu. 4. Enneads, 1.6: Plotinus. 5. Quotes on Painting: Shih-t'oa. 6. Of the Standard Taste: Hume. 7. Critique of Aesthetic Judgement 1-13, 16, 23-4, 28: Kant. 8. On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 26-7: Schiller. 9. Introduction to Aesthetics, Chapters 1-3: Hegel. 10. The World as Will and Representation, Vol I 52: Schopenhauer. 11. On Art: Tolstoy. 12. Art, Chapter 1: Bell. 13. The Dance of Siva, Chapters 2-3: Coomaraswamy. 14. Art as Experience, Chapter 1: Dewey. 15. On the Origin of the Work of Art: Heidegger. 16. The Principles of Art, Chapter 7: Collingwood. Index.

Reviews

"""The finest aesthetics anthology available. Cooper has boiled his selections down to the truly classic writings, visionary and formative, and provided crisp insightful introductions. No other anthology matches his in the rich depth of reflections on art and the aesthetic to be found in the selections chosen."" Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University ""What Cooper offers is a manageable, wide-ranging yet economical, and carefully reasoned selection for beginning students in aesthetics."" Joseph Margolis, Temple University"

"The finest aesthetics anthology available. Cooper has boiled his selections down to the truly classic writings, visionary and formative, and provided crisp insightful introductions. No other anthology matches his in the rich depth of reflections on art and the aesthetic to be found in the selections chosen." Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University "What Cooper offers is a manageable, wide-ranging yet economical, and carefully reasoned selection for beginning students in aesthetics." Joseph Margolis, Temple University

Author Information

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina State University. He is the author of a number of books including Metaphor (1986), Existentialism (1990) and World Philosophies (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and is also editor of Aesthetics: The Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, 1992).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions