Aesthetics Classic Readings from the Western

This anthology is a collection of basic readings, chosen to illustrate the major movements in the history, development and nature of aesthetics. Selections of major importance are drawn from the period of the Greeks to the mid-twentieth century. Every section introduction includes an historical overview of each period, biographical information, and a brief analysis of key concepts.

Preface

ix

PART I Classical and Medieval Aesthetics

1

(80)

Plato

5

(15)

From Republic, Book X

10

(10)

Aristotle

20

(24)

From Poetics

26

(18)

Plotinus

44

(11)

Ennead One, Sixth Tractate

48

(7)

Bonaventure

55

(11)

Retracing the Arts to Theology

60

(6)

Dante

66

(11)

Letter Ten

71

(6)

Passages for Discussion

77

(4)

PART II Modern Aesthetics

81

(190)

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

83

(62)

Francis Hutcheson

87

(13)

From An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

92

(8)

David Hume

100

(17)

Of the Standard of Taste

105

(12)

Immanuel Kant

117

(25)

From Critique of Judgment

124

(18)

Passages for Discussion

142

(3)

The Nineteenth Century

145

(71)

G. W. F. Hegel

150

(9)

From The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

155

(4)

Arthur Schopenhauer

159

(14)

From The World as Will and Idea

163

(10)

Friedrich Nietzsche

173

(15)

From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music

179

(9)

John Ruskin

188

(16)

From Modern Painters

193

(11)

Leo Tolstoy

204

(10)

From What Is Art?

208

(6)

Passages for Discussion

214

(2)

The Turn of the Century

216

(55)

Benedetto Croce

220

(17)

From Aesthetic

224

(13)

Edward Bullough

237

(18)

From ``Psychical Distance'' as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle

241

(14)

Clive Bell

255

(15)

From Art

259

(11)

Passages for Discussion

270

(1)

PART III Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century

271

(70)

Walter Benjamin

281

(15)

From The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

285

(11)

Morris Weitz

296

(11)

The Role of Theory in Aesthetics

298

(9)

George Dickie

307

(15)

The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude

310

(12)

Arthur Danto

322

(16)

The Artworld

326

(12)

Passages for Discussion

338

(3)

Sources

341

(2)

Glossary

343

(8)

Index

351

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