Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology

Edited by Cahn and Meskin.

Preface.

Part I: Historical Sources.

1. The Modern System of the Arts: Paul Oskar Kristeller.

2. Ion: Plato.

3. The Republic: Plato.

4. Symposium: Plato.

5. Poetics: Aristotle.

6. Ennead I, vi: Plotinus.

7. Of Music: St. Augustine.

8. On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology: St. Bonaventure.

9. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Third Earl of Shaftesbury.

10. Inquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue: Francis Hutcheson.

11. Of the Standard of Taste: David Hume.

12. Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful: Sir Edmund Burke.

13. Laocoon: Gotthold Lesing.

14. Critique of Judgment: Immanuel Kant.

Part II: Modern Theories.

15. Introduction to Modern Theories: Christopher Janaway.

16. Letter of an Aesthetic Education of Man: Friedrich Schiller.

17. Philosophy of Art: Friedrich J.W. Schelling.

18. The Philosophy of Fine Art: Georg W.F. Hegel.

19. The World as Will and Representation: Arthur Schopenhauer.

20. The Beautiful in Music: Eduard Hanslick.

21. The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Nietzsche.

22. What is Art?: Leo Tolstoy.

23. ‘Psychical Distance’ as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle: Edward Bullough.

24. Art: Clive Bell.

25. Aesthetics: Benedetto Croce.

26. The Principles of Art: R.G. Collingwood.

27. Art as Experience: John Dewey.

28. Feeling and Form: Susanne Langer.

29. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Walter Benjamin.

30. The Origin of the Work of Art: Martin Heidegger.

31. Aesthetic Theory: Theodor Adorno.

32. Truth and Method: Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Part III: Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art.

33. Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Susan Feagin and Aaron Meskin.

34. Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy: Stanley Cavell.

35. The Role of Theory in Aesthetics: Morris Weitz.

36. The Artworld: Arthur Danto.

37. What is Art? An Institutional Analysis: George Dickie.

38. When is Art?: Nelson Goodman.

39. Identifying Art: Noel Carroll.

40. The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude: George Dickie.

41. Art and its Objects: Richard Wollheim.

42. What a Musical Work Is: Jerrold Levinson.

43. Aesthetic Concepts: Frank Sibley.

44. Beauty Restored: Mary Mothersill.

45. Categories of Art: Kendall Walton.

46. Appreciation and the Natural Environment: Allen Carlson.

47. The Intentional Fallacy: W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley.

48. The Postulated Author: Critical Monism as a Regulative Ideal: Alexander Nehamas.

49. Art Intention and Conversation: Noel Carroll.

50. The Ethical Criticism of Art: Berys Gaut.

51. Expressive Properties of Art: Guy Sircello.

52. Style and Personality in the Literary Work: Jenefer Robinson.

53. Emotions in the Music: Peter Kivy.

54. Fearing Fictions: Kendall Walton.

55. Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers and the Gendered Spectator: Mary Devereaux