A Companion to Aesthetics

"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.

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics.* Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art* Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art* Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times Zusammenfassung "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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContributorsPrefaceHistorical OverviewsArt of the Paleolithic: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham)Aesthetics in Antiquity: Stephen Halliwell (University of St. AndrewsMedieval 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 ArtsArchitecture: 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 (EmeritusPoetry: Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech University)Sculpture: Erik Koed (Independent Scholar)A-ZIndex...

Klappentext
In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. * Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art * Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art * Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times

Inhalt
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 (Independent Scholar) A-Z Index

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