Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics - Softcover

Graham, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415166888 ISBN 13: 9780415166881

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Written in untechnical style, this text is for students of music, art history, and literature as well as of philosophy. It looks at all the arts, such as film, music, fiction, poetry and architecture. The text examines what the special "value" of art is, rather than what art "is". It discusses the philosophical theories of Hume, Mill, Kant, Habermas and Collingwood; the objections of Althusser, Lukacs, Levi-Strauss, Derrida; and concludes with Hegel and Schopenhauer.

About this title

Review:

"Straightforward, wide-ranging and above all engaged, Gordon Graham's discussion of important theories of the value of art, conducted with close attention to particular artforms, will be found highly useful by beginners in aesthetics."-Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland.

About the Author:

GORDON GRAHAM is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415166888
• ISBN 13: 9780415166881
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208