{"product_id":"aesthetics-isbn-9780631205937","title":"Aesthetics","description":"Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present.  List of Plates. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: What is Art?\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface. John Dewey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Live Creature. Richard L. Anderson, from Calliope's Sisters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Artworld. Arthur C. Danto.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrafty Women and the Hierarchy of the Arts. Roszika Parker and Griselda Pollock.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZen and the Art of Tea. D. T. Suzuki.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDressing Down Dressing Up. The Philosophic Fear of Fashion. Karen Hanson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Experience and Appreciation: How Do We Encounter Art?.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Contested Term: What is \"Aesthetic\"?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Aesthetic Attitude. Jerome Stolnitz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocating the Aesthetic. Marcia Eaton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Truth and Method. Hans Georg Gadamer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow is Art Presented to the Public?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArtistic Dropouts. Kevin Melchionne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuseums: From Object to Experience. Hilde Hein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe MoMA's Hot Mamas. Carol Duncan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Arthur Danto.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Aesthetic Evaluation: Who Decides?.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf the Standard of Taste. David Hume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Distinction. Pierre Bourdieu.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisinterestedness and Political Art. Peggy Zeglin Brand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHigh and Low Thinking About High and Low Art. Ted Cohen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: Can We Learn from Art?.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Republic. Plato.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sovereignty of Good. Iris Murdoch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Love's Knowledge. Martha Nussbaum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarnage and Glory, Legends and Lies. Michael Norman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaintings and Their Places. Susan L. Feagin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: Tragedy, Sublimity, Horror: Why Do We Enjoy Painful Experiences in Art?.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTragedy: Sophocles, Choral Ode from Oedipus at Colonus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Poetics. Aristotle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Birth of Tragedy. Friedrich Nietzsche.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSublimity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDescent into the Maelstrom. Edgar Allen Poe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Edmund Burke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Critique of Judgement. Immanuel Kant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorror.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Philosophy of Horror. Noel Carroll.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealist Horror. Cynthia Freeland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Six: Where is the Artist in the Work of Art?.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenius and Creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Critique of Judgement. Kant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Genius. Christine Battersby.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterpreting the Artist in Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is an Author? Michael Foucault.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTruth and other Cultures. Michael Baxandall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMusical Thinking and Thinking About Music. Bruno Nettl.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"An anthology that paired the strongest evidence in favor of the tradition with the strongest evidence against it would have obvious appeal for many teachers of aesthetics, especially those of us who remain genuinely ambivalent about the tradition. That anthology does not yet exist, at least to my knowledge. In the meantime, the next best thing may be to pair this provocative collection with one of its more traditional competitors.\" \u003ci\u003eJames Shelley, American Society for Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Carolyn Korsmeyer has produced a very useful anthology which will undoubtedly become a well used textbook for students of aesthetics and a valuable source of otherwise less readily available texts...the volume is radical in enriching the discipline and Korsmeyer has made the presence of women scholars and feminist theory in philosophy felt in fundamental ways.\" \u003ci\u003eMelanie Selfe, Women's Philosophy Review, Special Issue no. 25, 2000\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Korsmeyer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the editor (with Peggy Zeglin Brand) of \u003ci\u003eFeminism and Tradition in Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and (with Hilde Hein) \u003ci\u003eAesthetics in Feminist Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) and the author (with Dubois, Kelly, Kennedy, and Robinson) of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe\u003c\/i\u003e (1985).  Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present. Aesthetics has also been the subject of a number of theoretical challenges that investigate the conceptual frameworks customarily assumed by theories of art.  \u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays assembles classic and contemporary texts to present both the tradition of aesthetic theory and the kinds of questions and challenges that it confronts today, both from other cultural traditions and from theoretical movements such as feminism and postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988701462757,"sku":"NP9780631205937","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631205937.jpg?v=1761781247","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/aesthetics-isbn-9780631205937","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}