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'This is an immensely useful book that belongs in every college library and on the bookshelves of all serious students of aesthetics.' - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
'The succinctness and clarity of the essays will make this a source that individuals not familiar with aesthetics will find extremely helpful.' - The Philosophical Quarterly
'An outstanding resource in aesthetics…this text will not only serve as a handy reference source for students and faculty alike, but it could also be used as a text for a course in the philosophy of art.' - Australasian Journal of Philosophy
'Attests to the richness of modern aesthetics…the essays in central topics – many of which are written by well-known figures – succeed in being informative, balanced and intelligent without being too difficult.' - British Journal of Aesthetics
'This handsome reference volume... belongs in every library.' - Choice
'The Routledge Companions to Philosophy have proved to be a useful series of high quality surveys of major philosophical topics and this volume is worthy enough to sit with the others on a reference library shelf.' - Philosophy and Religion
'The sheer eclecticism of this work – the variety of content, method, outlook and sensibility – shows the vigour and vitality that aesthetics as a branch of modern philosophy has come to assume in the last two or three decades. Its compilation is a real achievement, and it will appeal to a very wise range of readers. Some of these essays are, and will remain, classics of their kind.' - Richard Wollheim
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The second edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains fifty-four chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics.
This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sibley and Derrida. The second part covers the central concepts and theories needed for a comprehensive understanding of aesthetics including the definitions of art, taste, value of art, beauty, imagination, fiction, narrative, metaphor and pictorial representation. Part three is devoted to the topics that have attracted much contemporary interest in aesthetics including art and ethics, environmental aesthetics and feminist aesthetics. The final part addresses the individual arts of music, photography, film, literature, theatre, dance, architecture and sculpture.
With nine new and revised entries, and up to date suggestions for further reading, The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics is essential for anyone interested in aesthetics, art, literature, and visual studies.
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Plato's writings about the arts play a foundation role in the history of aesthetics, not simply because they are the earliest substantial contribution to the subject. Read the first page
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The book breaks down into three categories: History, where we get essays on major figures in aesthetics; Aesthetic theory, including essays on major topics such as the "value of art", definition of art, taste, interpretation and others; and finally, Issues and challenges - including criticism, ethics, performance authenticity, and others. Check out the table of contents in the Amazon Online Reader for more. In short, the guide is comprehensive. Naturally, they couldn't include absolutely everything - there's no article on Adorno's widely influential aesthetics and writings on the culture industry, but this is easily forgivable as there are already whole anthologies on Adorno's aesthetics.
There are other companions similar to this such as Peter Kivy's very nice Blackwell guide to aesthetics. The Blackwell guide is just fine, but the Routledge companion has a wider scope, more articles, and is simply easier to use. That said, certain volumes (and here I'm thinking of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism) work nicely with this book, but they have different areas of focus.
Having spent some time with the major collections on aesthetics, I can definitely say that this is the finest. I highly recommend it to students, artists, educators, or anyone interested. The writing is extremely clear and the format makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for. If you want to know more about aesthetics, this is the book for you.
Structurally, the book's layout makes it easy to locate pertinent information quickly. The chapters are divided into sections which discuss the history, theory, issues and challenges of aesthetic theory; and then looks at the individual arts such as film, photography, dance, theater and music (to name a few. Each chapter concludes with a reference list and a further reading list.
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