ABSTRACT

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

part |2 pages

Part 1 HISTORY OF AESTHETICS

chapter 1|12 pages

PLATO

chapter 2|12 pages

ARISTOTLE

chapter 3|10 pages

MEDIEVAL AESTHETICS

chapter 4|14 pages

Empiricism: Hutcheson and Hume

chapter 5|14 pages

KANT

chapter 6|10 pages

HEGEL

chapter 7|12 pages

NIETZSCHE

chapter 8|10 pages

FORMALISM

chapter 9|10 pages

Pragmatism: Dewey

chapter 10|12 pages

HEIDEGGER

chapter 11|12 pages

Expressivism: Croce and Collingwood

chapter 12|12 pages

SIBLEY

chapter 13|12 pages

FOUCAULT

chapter 14|12 pages

Postmodernism: Barthes and Derrida

part |2 pages

Part 2 AESTHETIC THEORY

chapter 15|12 pages

DEFINITIONS OF ART

chapter 16|12 pages

THE AESTHETIC

chapter 17|10 pages

TASTE

chapter 18|12 pages

AESTHETIC UNIVERSALS

chapter 19|12 pages

VALUE OF ART

chapter 20|12 pages

BEAUTY

chapter 21|14 pages

INTERPRETATION

chapter 22|10 pages

IMAGINATION AND MAKE-BELIEVE

chapter 23|12 pages

FICTION

chapter 24|10 pages

NARRATIVE

chapter 25|12 pages

METAPHOR

chapter 26|16 pages

PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION

part |2 pages

Part 3 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

chapter 27|14 pages

CRITICISM

chapter 28|12 pages

ART AND KNOWLEDGE

chapter 29|12 pages

ART AND ETHICS

chapter 30|10 pages

Art, expression, and emotion

chapter 31|12 pages

TRAGEDY

chapter 32|8 pages

HUMOR

chapter 33|12 pages

AUTHENTICITY IN PERFORMANCE

chapter 34|14 pages

FAKES AND FORGERIES

chapter 35|14 pages

HIGH ART VERSUS LOW ART

chapter 36|14 pages

ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS

chapter 37|10 pages

FEMINIST AESTHETICS

part |2 pages

Part 4 THE INDIVIDUAL ARTS

chapter 38|14 pages

LITERATURE

chapter 39|14 pages

FILM

chapter 40|14 pages

PHOTOGRAPHY

chapter 41|12 pages

PAINTING

chapter 42|16 pages

SCULPTURE

chapter 43|12 pages

ARCHITECTURE

chapter 44|14 pages

MUSIC

chapter 45|12 pages

DANCE

chapter 46|12 pages

THEATER