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Aesthetics
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Aesthetics

A Comprehensive Anthology
BookPaperback
Ranking30488inPhilosophie
CHF53.00

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From Plato s
Ion to works by contemporary philosophers, this anthology showcases classic texts to illuminate the development of philosophical thought about art and the aesthetic. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of readings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art currently available.
Brings together the most significant writings in aesthetics and philosophy of art from the past 2500 years
Each section includes a useful introductory essay which provides an overview of developments in the field
Broken down into three sections: Historical Sources, Modern Theories, and Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Thorough, systematic, and flexible, including two alternative tables of contents (historical and topical); an ideal textbook and guide to the field
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4051-5435-2
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
PublisherWiley
Publishing date01/07/2007
SeriesBlackwell Philosophy Anthologies
Pages704 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 171 mm, Height 246 mm, Thickness 32 mm
Weight1070 g
Article no.1221366
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.4532876
Product groupPhilosophie
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Steven M. Cahn is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of nine books, including Fate, Logic, and Time, Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia, revised edition, Puzzles and Perplexities, second edition, and God, Reason, and Religion. He has also edited or co-edited some thirty volumes, including Classics of Western Philosophy, now in its seventh edition.Aaron Meskin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His publications on aesthetics have appeared in the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and a number of anthologies. He is also aesthetics editor for the online journal Philosophy Compass (Wiley-Blackwell).