Aesthetics: the key thinkers

by Bacharach, Sondra Giovannelli, Alessandro

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Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st Century. The book reconstructs the history of aesthetics, clearly illustrating the most important attempts to address such crucial issues as the nature of aesthetic judgment, th…

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Full title :Aesthetics : the key thinkers / edited by Alessandro Giovannelli ; contributors Sondra Bacharach [and sixteen others].

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Publication Date:©2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Continuum
Place of Publication:London, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012

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Includes index.

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Description:1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781441180278, 1441180273, 1306845416, 9781306845410, 9781441141545, 1441141545, 9781472545404, 1472545400, 1441198784, 9781441198785, 1441187774, 9781441187772
oclc:ocn880457747
LC Classification:BH81
Dewey Decimal:111/.8509

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 PLATO (c. 427-347 BCE); CHAPTER 2 ARISTOTLE (384-322 BCE); CHAPTER 3 MEDIEVAL AESTHETICS; CHAPTER 4 DAVID HUME (1711-1776); CHAPTER 5 IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804); CHAPTER 6 G.W.F. HEGEL (1770-1831); CHAPTER 7 ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900); CHAPTER 8 BENEDETTO CROCE (1866-1952) AND ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD (1889-1943); CHAPTER 9 ROGER FRY (1866-1934) AND CLIVE BELL (1881-1964); CHAPTER 10 JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952); CHAPTER 11 MARTIN HEIDEGGER (1889-1976).

CHAPTER 12 WALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940) AND THEODOR W. ADORNO (1903-1969)CHAPTER 13 MONROE BEARDSLEY (1915-1985); CHAPTER 14 NELSON GOODMAN (1906-1998); CHAPTER 15 RICHARD A. WOLLHEIM (1923-2003); CHAPTER 16 ARTHUR C. DANTO (b. 1924); CHAPTER 17 KENDALL L. WALTON (b. 1939); CHAPTER 18 SOME CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS; Index.