The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics (Blackwell Philosophy Guides)

Edited by Peter Kivy

ISBN 10: 0631221301 / ISBN 13: 9780631221302

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics (Blackwell Philosophy Guides)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631221301
• ISBN 13: 9780631221302
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: Reprint .
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • PHILOSOPHY

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Synopsis

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music.

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• Provides a guide to the central traditional and cutting edge issues in aesthetics today.
  
• Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, including Peter Kivy, George Dickie, Noël Carroll, Paul Guyer, Ted Cohen, Marcia Eaton, Joseph Margolis, Berys Gaut, Nicholas Wolterstrorff, Susan Feagin, Peter Lamarque, Stein Olsen, Francis Sparshott, Alan Goldman, Jenefer Robinson, Mary Mothersill, Donald Crawford, Philip Alperson, Laurent Stern and Amie Thomasson.
  
• Functions as the ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in aesthetics, art theory, and philosophy of art.

About the Author

Peter Kivy is Board of Governors professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. His most recent books are The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius (2001), New Essays on Musical Understanding (2001), and Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2002).