Five Swedish scholars and theorists from different disciplines - literary studies, philosophy, and art history - discuss the multiplicity of principles of interpretation and provide a descriptive anal
Brings together and provides contextual introductions to the most significant 18th century writing on the philosophy of art. From the pioneering study of beauty by Francis Hutcheson, through Hume's se
George Dickie has been one of the most innovative, influential, and controversial philosophers of art working in the analytical tradition in the past twenty-five years. Dickie's arguments against the
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press h
The aesthetics of nature is the central focus of environmental aesthetics, a new field that addresses the philosophical issues surrounding the aesthetic appreciation of the world. The essays in this c
Scholars of philosophy and the arts explore how the ideas of various neoplatonists play out in the three branches of art. Among their perspectives are the art of flute playing in Proclus, metaphysics
Ever since the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant has occupied a central position in the philosop Transcendental Aesthetic, namely, his position on how we manage to intu
In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty -- the divine beauty that calls theimagina
Imagining Irreality looks at the various ways philosophers have considered the realm of unreal possibilities and nonexistent objects. Author Nicholas Rescher ties both diverse approaches and makes an
German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) wrote less about aesthetics than he did about other topics, but the mostly European scholars here believe that his ideas about it are no less signifi
In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to painting, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. As emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, paintings, he argues, are not simply in our heads but in our world. Paskow also situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting in relation to contemporary schools of thought, particularly Marxist, feminist, and deconstructionist.
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere- in landscape, music, art, love, companionship, religion, and in ourselves. When we experience the Beautiful, we feel fully alive. From Iris
This study shows in detail how Suarez' metaphysics synthesize in an original way elements from different traditions of the doctrine of the transcendentals (being, unity, truth, goodness) and thus deve
This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex relationship between the emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings on the other. A
When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, Observations shows Kant as a man of
Guillet (general management, Stockholm U.) looks at how aesthetics makes value and how performance in business links to performance art, questions he says have become central to the economy in general
This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex relationship between the emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings on the other. A
