Aesthetics : a comprehensive anthology /
Aesthetics : a comprehensive anthology /
edited by Steven M. Cahn, Sandra L. Shapshay and Stephanie Ross.
- Second edition.
- pages cm
- Blackwell philosophy anthologies .
Includes index.
P.B
"The study of aesthetics concerns the arts broadly conceived, as well as the nature of aesthetic experience, which includes our responses to beauty, sublimity, ugliness, and other such qualities found in works of art, nature, the built-environment and in the course of everyday life. Although the term "aesthetics" to denote this area of study goes back only to the eighteenth century with the work of Alexander Baumgarten, the field has had a long and distinguished history dating back to classical antiquity. Aesthetics is currently the scene of provocative philosophical exploration, and one which has become increasingly connected to work in disciplines outside of philosophy such as art history, psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, gender studies, and critical race theory"--
9781118948323 9781118952429 9781119096177
Aesthetics
BH39 / .A2875 2020
111/.85
Includes index.
P.B
"The study of aesthetics concerns the arts broadly conceived, as well as the nature of aesthetic experience, which includes our responses to beauty, sublimity, ugliness, and other such qualities found in works of art, nature, the built-environment and in the course of everyday life. Although the term "aesthetics" to denote this area of study goes back only to the eighteenth century with the work of Alexander Baumgarten, the field has had a long and distinguished history dating back to classical antiquity. Aesthetics is currently the scene of provocative philosophical exploration, and one which has become increasingly connected to work in disciplines outside of philosophy such as art history, psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, gender studies, and critical race theory"--
9781118948323 9781118952429 9781119096177
Aesthetics
BH39 / .A2875 2020
111/.85