Features an inquiry written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.
Adorno's diagnosis of the crisis of modernist values points back to Hegel's thesis of the end of art and also forward to the postmodernist debate. This title presents an analysis in English of Theodor Adorno's seminal Philosophy of Modern Music , which can be seen as a turning point between modern and postmodern art and theory.
Begins from the observation that interpretation, even the kind represented by interpretation of the arts, is not a homogeneous activity. This book provides a bridge between analytical aesthetics and theoretical discussion within aesthetic disciplines. It offers a frame for discussion of the issues and a perspective on debates about interpretation.
Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present.
Steven Cahn and Aaron Meskin have put together an unrivalled collection of great work in philosophical aesthetics, encompassing historical sources ranging from Plato to Shaftesbury, modern theories from Schiller to Gadamer, and more recent work covering all the central areas in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of art.