Aesthetics: The Classic Readings / Edition 1

by David E. Cooper, Crispin Sartwell

Overview

This is the first volume to be published in an exciting new series of classic collections in philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631195696
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/28/1997
Series:	Philosophy: The Classic Readings Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina State University. He is the author of a number of books including Metaphor (1986), Existentialism (1990) and World Philosophies (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and is also editor of Aesthetics: The Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, 1992).

Table of Contents

Series Preface.

Introduction.

1. Republic, Book 10: Plato.

2. Poetics, Chapters 1-13: Aristotle.

3. Against Music:Mo Tzu.

A Discussion of Music: Hsun Tzu.

4. Enneads, 1.6: Plotinus.

5. Quotes on Painting: Shih-t'oa.

6. Of the Standard Taste: Hume.

7. Critique of Aesthetic Judgement 1-13, 16, 23-4, 28: Kant.

8. On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 26-7: Schiller.

9. Introduction to Aesthetics, Chapters 1-3: Hegel.

10. The World as Will and Representation, Vol I 52: Schopenhauer.

11. On Art: Tolstoy.

12. Art, Chapter 1: Bell.

13. The Dance of Siva, Chapters 2-3: Coomaraswamy.

14. Art as Experience, Chapter 1: Dewey.

15. On the Origin of the Work of Art: Heidegger.

16. The Principles of Art, Chapter 7: Collingwood.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

Joseph Margolis

What Cooper offers is a manageable, wide-ranging yet economical, and carefully reasoned selection for beginning students in aesthetics.
(Professor Joseph Margolis, Temple University)

Nicholas Wolterstorff

The finest aesthetics anthology available. Cooper has boiled his selections down to the truly classic writings, visionary and formative, and provided crisp insightful introductions. No other anthology matches his in the rich depth of reflections on art and the aesthetic to be found in the selections chosen.
(Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University)

Editorial Reviews

"The finest aesthetics anthology available. Cooper has boiled his selections down to the truly classic writings, visionary and formative, and provided crisp insightful introductions. No other anthology matches his in the rich depth of reflections on art and the aesthetic to be found in the selections chosen." Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University

"What Cooper offers is a manageable, wide-ranging yet economical, and carefully reasoned selection for beginning students in aesthetics." Joseph Margolis, Temple University

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