Approach to Aesthetics: Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics

by Frank Sibley, John Benson (Editor), Betty Redfern (Editor), Jeremy Roxbee Cox (Editor)

Overview

A complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics, this volume includes five, remarkable, hitherto unpublished papers written in Sibley's later years. It addresses many topics, among them the nature of aesthetic qualities versus non-aesthetic qualities, the relation of aesthetic description to aesthetic evaluation, the different levels of evaluation, and the objectivity of aesthetic judgement. The later papers constitute both a significant development of Sibley's individual approach to aesthetics, such as his discussion of the distinction between attributive and predicative uses of adjectives and of the aesthetic significance of tastes and smells, a topic Sibley considered to be much neglected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198238997
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/09/2001
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Frank Sibley (1923-1996) was the first Professor of Philosophy to be appointed at Lancaster University, a position he occupied until his retirement.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction1. Aesthetic Concepts2. Aesthetics and the Looks of Things3. Aesthetic and Non-aesthetic4. About Taste5. Colours6. Objectivity and Aesthetics7. Particularity, Art and Evaluation8. General Criteria and Reasons in Aesthetics9. Originality and Value10. Arts or the Aesthetic - which comes first? 11. Making Music Our Own12. Adjectives, Predicative and Attributive13. Aesthetic Judgements: Pebbles, Faces and Fields of Litter14. Some Notes on Ugliness15. Tastes, Smells and Aesthetics16. Why the Mona Lisa May Not Be a Painting

Editorial Reviews

"A valuable and stimulating collection that shows Sibley at his fearless best in asking and making distinctions that raise doubts about some of our most entrenched beliefs and assumptions concerning art and aesthetic."—The Review of Metaphysics

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