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<p>Contributors xi</p> <p>Preface xv</p> <p>Historical Overviews 1</p> <p>art of the Paleolithic Gregory Currie 1</p> <p>aesthetics in antiquity Stephen Halliwell 10</p> <p>medieval and renaissance aesthetics John Marenbon 22</p> <p>eighteenth-century aesthetics Paul Guyer 32</p> <p>nineteenth- and twentieth-century Continental aesthetics Robert Wicks 51</p> <p>twentieth-century Anglo-American aesthetics Stephen Davies & Robert Stecker 61</p> <p>The Arts 74</p> <p>architecture Edward Winters 74</p> <p>dance Julie Van Camp 76</p> <p>drama James Hamilton 78</p> <p>drawing, painting, and printmaking Patrick Maynard 82</p> <p>literature David Davies 85</p> <p>motion pictures Noël Carroll 88</p> <p>music and song John Andrew Fisher and Stephen Davies 91</p> <p>opera Paul Thom 95</p> <p>photography Patrick Maynard 98</p> <p>poetry Anna Christina Ribeiro 101</p> <p>sculpture Erik Koed 104</p> <p>A 107</p> <p>abstraction Robert Hopkins 107</p> <p>Adorno, Theodor W(iesengrund) Paul Mattick 109</p> <p>aesthetic attitude David E. Cooper 111</p> <p>aesthetic education Pradeep A. Dhillon 114</p> <p>aesthetic judgment Andrew Ward 117</p> <p>aesthetic pleasure Jerrold Levinson 121</p> <p>aesthetic properties Alan H. Goldman 124</p> <p>aestheticism David Whewell 128</p> <p>aesthetics of food and drink Carolyn Korsmeyer 131</p> <p>aesthetics of the environment Allen Carlson 134</p> <p>aesthetics of the everyday Sherri Irvin 136</p> <p>African aesthetics John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji 139</p> <p>Amerindian aesthetics Anthony K. Webster 142</p> <p>Aquinas, Thomas John Haldane 145</p> <p>Aristotle Stephen Halliwell 147</p> <p>art history David Carrier 149</p> <p>artifact, art as George Dickie & Robert Stecker 152</p> <p>“artworld” Anita Silvers 155</p> <p>authenticity and art Theodore Gracyk 156</p> <p>B 160</p> <p>Barthes, Roland Mary Bittner Wiseman 160</p> <p>Baumgarten, Alexander G(ottlieb) Nicholas Davey 162</p> <p>Beardsley, Monroe C(urtis) Donald Callen 163</p> <p>beauty Mary Mothersill 166</p> <p>Bell, (Arthur) Clive (Heward) Ronald W. Hepburn 172</p> <p>Benjamin, Walter Martin Donougho 174</p> <p>Burke, Edmund Patrick Gardiner 177</p> <p>C 179</p> <p>canon Stein Haugom Olsen 179</p> <p>catharsis Stephen Halliwell 182</p> <p>Cavell, Stanley Timothy Gould 183</p> <p>censorship Bernard Williams 185</p> <p>Chinese aesthetics Marthe Chandler 188</p> <p>cognitive science and art William P. Seeley 191</p> <p>cognitive value of art Matthew Kieran 194</p> <p>Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge) Michael Krausz 197</p> <p>comedy Noël Carroll 199</p> <p>conceptual art Peter Goldie 202</p> <p>conservation and restoration David Carrier 205</p> <p>creativity Berys Gaut 207</p> <p>critical monism and pluralism Robert Kraut 211</p> <p>criticism Michael Weston 215</p> <p>Croce, Benedetto Douglas R. Anderson 219</p> <p>cultural appropriation James O. Young 222</p> <p>D 226</p> <p>Danto, Arthur C(oleman) David Novitz & Stephen Davies 226</p> <p>deconstruction Stuart Sim 229</p> <p>definition of “art” Kathleen Stock 231</p> <p>Deleuze, Gilles Nicholas Davey 234</p> <p>depiction Katerina Bantinaki 238</p> <p>Derrida, Jacques Mary Bittner Wiseman 241</p> <p>Dewey, John Thomas M. Alexander 244</p> <p>Dickie, George Noël Carroll 247</p> <p>Dufrenne, Mikel Wojciech Chojna & Irena Kocol 249</p> <p>E 252</p> <p>emotion Malcolm Budd 252</p> <p>erotic art and obscenity Matthew Kieran 256</p> <p>evolution, art, and aesthetics Stephen Davies 259</p> <p>expression Derek Matravers 261</p> <p>expression theory Derek Matravers 264</p> <p>F 267</p> <p>feminist aesthetics Peg Zeglin Brand 267</p> <p>feminist criticism Renée Lorraine & Peg Zeglin Brand 269</p> <p>feminist standpoint aesthetics A. W. Eaton 272</p> <p>fiction, nature of Robert Stecker 275</p> <p>fiction, the paradox of responding to Alex Neill 278</p> <p>fiction, truth in Paisley Livingston 281</p> <p>fictional entities Diane Proudfoot 284</p> <p>forgery Robert Hopkins 287</p> <p>formalism Nick Zangwill 290</p> <p>Foucault, Michel Robert Wicks 293</p> <p>function of art David Novitz 297</p> <p>G 302</p> <p>Gadamer, Hans-Georg Robert Bernasconi 302</p> <p>gardens David E. Cooper 304</p> <p>genre Andrew Harrison 306</p> <p>Gombrich, Sir Ernst (Hans Josef) David E. Cooper 308</p> <p>Goodman, Nelson Catherine Z. Elgin 311</p> <p>H 314</p> <p>Hanslick, Eduard Malcolm Budd 314</p> <p>Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Gary Shapiro 315</p> <p>Heidegger, Martin Robert Bernasconi 321</p> <p>hermeneutics Joseph Margolis 324</p> <p>horror Amy Coplan 328</p> <p>Hume, David Theodore Gracyk 331</p> <p>humor John Lippitt 334</p> <p>Hutcheson, Francis Peter Kivy 338</p> <p>I 341</p> <p>iconoclasm and idolatry David Freedberg 341</p> <p>illusion Robert Hopkins 343</p> <p>imagination Roger Scruton 346</p> <p>imaginative resistance Tamar Szabó Gendler 351</p> <p>implied author Peter Lamarque 354</p> <p>Indian aesthetics Kalyan Sen Gupta 356</p> <p>ineffability David E. Cooper 360</p> <p>Ingarden, Roman Wojciech Chojna 364</p> <p>intention and interpretation Colin Lyas & Robert Stecker 366</p> <p>“intentional fallacy” Colin Lyas & Robert Stecker 369</p> <p>interpretation Joseph Margolis 371</p> <p>interpretation, aims of David Davies 375</p> <p>irony David E. Cooper 378</p> <p>Islamic aesthetics Oliver Leaman 381</p> <p>J 384</p> <p>Japanese aesthetics Yuriko Saito 384</p> <p>K 388</p> <p>Kant, Immanuel David Whewell 388</p> <p>Kierkegaard, Søren Ann Loades 392</p> <p>kitsch Kathleen Marie Higgins 393</p> <p>Kristeva, Julia Laura Marcus 396</p> <p>L 400</p> <p>Langer, Susanne Thomas M. Alexander 400</p> <p>Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Anthony Savile 402</p> <p>Lewis, C(larence) I(rving) Paisley Livingston 405</p> <p>Lukács, Georg Tom Rockmore 408</p> <p>M 411</p> <p>Margolis, Joseph Richard Shusterman 411</p> <p>Marxism and art Tom Rockmore 412</p> <p>mass art Noël Carroll 415</p> <p>meaning constructivism Robert Stecker 418</p> <p>Merleau-Ponty, Maurice John J. Compton 421</p> <p>metaphor Samuel R. Levin 423</p> <p>modernism and postmodernism Stuart Sim 425</p> <p>morality and art Berys Gaut 428</p> <p>museums Paul Mattick 431</p> <p>N 435</p> <p>narrative Stein Haugom Olsen 435</p> <p>Nietzsche, Friedrich (Wilhelm) Julian Young 438</p> <p>notations Stephen Davies 441</p> <p>O 444</p> <p>objectivity and realism in aesthetics Robert Hopkins 444</p> <p>ontological contextualism Theodore Gracyk 449</p> <p>ontology of artworks Nicholas Wolterstorff 453</p> <p>originality George Bailey 457</p> <p>P 460</p> <p>performance Stephen Davies 460</p> <p>performance art David Davies 462</p> <p>perspective John Hyman 465</p> <p>picture perception Katerina Bantinaki 469</p> <p>Plato Stephen Halliwell 472</p> <p>Plotinus John Haldane 474</p> <p>popular art Richard Shusterman 476</p> <p>pornography Bernard Williams 478</p> <p>pragmatist aesthetics Richard Shusterman 480</p> <p>psychoanalysis and art Kathleen Marie Higgins 484</p> <p>R 489</p> <p>race and aesthetics Monique Roelofs 489</p> <p>rasa Kathleen Marie Higgins 492</p> <p>realism John Hyman 495</p> <p>relativism Nicholas Davey 498</p> <p>religion and art Robert Grant 500</p> <p>representation Robert Hopkins 504</p> <p>Ruskin, John Michael Wheeler 508</p> <p>S 511</p> <p>Santayana, George Morris Grossman 511</p> <p>Sartre, Jean-Paul John J. Compton 512</p> <p>Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Andrew Bowie 514</p> <p>Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von Margaret Paton 517</p> <p>Schlegel, August Wilhelm von Tom Rockmore 519</p> <p>Schlegel, Friedrich von Tom Rockmore 520</p> <p>Schopenhauer, Arthur Michael Tanner 522</p> <p>science and art Anthony O’Hear 525</p> <p>Scruton, Roger Anthony O’Hear 528</p> <p>senses and art, the Robert Hopkins 530</p> <p>sentimentality Deborah Knight 534</p> <p>Shaftesbury, Lord Dabney Townsend 537</p> <p>Sibley, Frank Noel Colin Lyas 538</p> <p>structuralism and poststructuralism Stuart Sim 540</p> <p>style Andrew Harrison 544</p> <p>sublime Mary Mothersill 547</p> <p>symbol Charles Molesworth 551</p> <p>T 554</p> <p>taste Robert Hopkins 554</p> <p>technology and art John Andrew Fisher 556</p> <p>testimony in aesthetics Robert Hopkins 560</p> <p>text Richard Shusterman 562</p> <p>theories of art Ronald W. Hepburn 565</p> <p>Tolstoy, Leo David Whewell 570</p> <p>tradition Anthony O’Hear 573</p> <p>tragedy Susan L. Feagin 575</p> <p>truth in art Eddy M. Zemach 578</p> <p>U 581</p> <p>universals in art Kathleen Marie Higgins 581</p> <p>W 586</p> <p>Wagner, Richard Michael Tanner 586</p> <p>Walton, Kendall L(ewis) Alessandro Giovannelli 588</p> <p>Wilde, Oscar David E. Cooper 591</p> <p>Wittgenstein, Ludwig Malcolm Budd 593</p> <p>Wollheim, Richard Malcolm Budd 596</p> <p>Index 600</p>

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<p><b>Stephen Davies,</b> University of Auckland, New Zealand, is the author of <i>Definitions of Art</i> (1991), <i>Musical Meaning and Expression</i> (1994), <i>Musical Works and Performances</i> (2001), <i>Themes in the Philosophy of Music</i> (2003), <i>The Philosophy of Art</i> (Blackwell, 2006), and <i>Philosophical Perspectives on Art</i> (2007). He is the editor of <i>Art and Its Messages</i> (1997), co-editor of <i>Art & Essence</i> (2003), and co-editor for aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the <i>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i>. He is on the editorial boards of <i>Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Rivista di Estetica, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Res Musica,</i> and <i>Philosophy Compass</i>. </p> <p><b>Kathleen Marie Higgins,</b> University of Texas at Austin, is the author of <i>The Music of Our Lives</i> (1991), and of many books in other areas of philosophy. She is also editor <i>of Aesthetics in Perspecptive</i> (1996), and is on the editorial board of <i>Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism</i>. She brings to the project specialist knowledge of Continental philosophy, history of aesthetics, non-Western aesthetics, and feminism. <p><b>Robert Hopkins,</b> University of Sheffield, UK, is the author of <i>Picture, Image and Experience</i> (1998) and many articles on aesthetics and related topics in the philosophy of mind. His research was recognized by the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2001). He is the first president of the European Society for Aesthetics. He brings to the project expert knowledge of painting, the plastic arts, the imagination, and aesthetic judgment. <p><b>Robert Stecker,</b> Central Michigan University, is the author of <i>Artworks</i> (1997), <i>Interpretation and Construction</i> (2003), and <i>Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art </i>(2005). He is co-editor for aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the <i>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i> and he has also co-edited editions of Hume’s <i>Treatise</i> and of Locke’s <i>Essay</i>. He brings to the project specialist knowledge of literature and interpretation. <p><b>David E. Cooper,</b> University of Durham, UK, has authored, edited and co-edited many books, including <i>Metaphor</i> (1986); <i>Heidegger</i> (1996); <i>The Measure of Things</i> (2002); <i>World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction</i> (1995; 2nd edn, 2003).; <i>A Companion to Aesthetics</i> (1st edn, 1992). He is currently co-editing <i>Philosophy: The Classic Readings</i> (Blackwell).

<p>This second edition of <i>A Companion to Aesthetics</i> examines questions that were among the earliest discussed by ancient philosophers, such as the nature of beauty and the relation between morality and art, while also addressing a host of new issues prompted by recent developments in the arts and in philosophy, including coverage of non-Western art traditions and of everyday and environmental aesthetics. The volume also canvases debates regarding the nature of representation, the relation between art and truth, and the criteria for interpretation, which are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary philosophy. </p> <p> In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in aesthetics. Major additions include historical overviews from the prehistoric to the present and a section on the individual arts. <i>A Companion to Aesthetics</i> will serve students of philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies - as well as the educated general reader - both as a work of reference and, with its many substantial essays, as a guide to the best thinking about the arts from the ancient Greeks to the dawn of the twenty-first century.

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