Goldblatt David - Aesthetics: a Reader in Philosophy of the Arts (4)

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such as painting, photography and movies, architecture, music, literature, and performance, as well as contemporary subjects such as mass art, popular arts, the aesthetics of the everyday, and the natural environment. Essays are drawn from both the analytic and continental traditions, and multiple others that bridge this divide between these traditions. Throughout, readings are brief, accessible for undergraduates, and conceptually focused, allowing instructors many different syllabi possibilities using only this single volume.

The fourth edition is expanded to include a total of ninety-six essays with nineteen new essays (nine of them written exclusively for this volume), updated organization into new sections, revised introductions to each section, an increased emphasis on contemporary topics, such as stand-up comedy, the architecture of museums, interactivity and video games, the ethics of sexiness, trans/gendered beauty, the aesthetics of junkyards and street art, pornography, and the inclusion of more diverse philosophical voices. Nevertheless, this edition does not neglect classic writers in the traditional aesthetics: Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Collingwood, Bell, and writers of similar status in aesthetics. The philosophers writing new chapters exclusively for this fourth edition are:

Sondra Bacharach on street art

Aili Bresnahan on appreciating dance

Hina Jamelle on digital architecture

Jason Leddington on magic

Sheila Lintott on stand-up comedy

Yuriko Saito on everyday aesthetics

Larry Shiner on art spectacle museums in the twenty-first century

Peg Brand Weiser on how beauty matters

Edward Winters on the feeling of being at home in vernacular architecture, as in such urban places as bars.

David Goldblatt is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Denison University, the author of Art and Ventriloquism in Routledges Critical Voices Series, and co-editor of The Aesthetics of Architecture: Philosophical Investigations into the Art of Building, and has written numerous essays in the academic and popular press.

Lee B. Brown (19322014) was Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University and the author of many articles on a wide range of philosophical subjects, including popular music, recorded music, and jazz.

Stephanie Patridge is a Professor of Philosophy at Otterbein University. Her research focuses on aesthetic properties, and moral evaluation in imaginative contexts.

Praise for this book

This 4th Edition offers broad coverage of many fascinating contemporary topics while also including some of the key works in the history of aesthetics. This text demonstrates the vibrancy of aesthetics today without losing sight of its past.

Christopher Bartel, Appalachian State University

Ive long considered Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts to be the best collection for undergraduate philosophy of art classes because of the breadth of its readings, and because of its excellent coverage of recent debates in the arts. The fourth edition builds on these strengths, expanding its coverage of contemporary topics.

Joshua Shaw, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

The editors have imaginatively selected essays both canonical and offbeat from diverse traditions. This anthology would be engaging and accessible to undergraduates of all levels and majors, as it shows the importance of Aesthetics to everyday life, as well as to philosophy and culture. It is an outstanding new contribution to the pedagogical literature in the field.

Carol S. Gould, Florida Atlantic University

Edited by
David Goldblatt, Lee B. Brown,
Stephanie Patridge

Fourth Edition

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First edition published 1997 by Pearson Education, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Goldblatt, David, 1941- editor.
Title: Aesthetics : a reader in philosophy of the arts / edited by David
Goldblatt, Lee B. Brown, Stephanie Patridge.
Description: 4 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017003242 | ISBN 9781138235878 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781138235885 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Aesthetics. | ArtPhilosophy.
Classification: LCC BH39 .A287 2017 | DDC 111/.85dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017003242

ISBN: 978-1-138-23587-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-23588-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-30367-3 (ebk)

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PART I
Painting

PLATO

ERNST GOMBRICH

NELSON GOODMAN

NELSON GOODMAN

DENIS DUTTON

CLIVE BELL

EDMUND BURKE FELDMAN

MICHAEL BAXANDALL

ARTHUR C. DANTO

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

LINDA NOCHLIN

A.W. EATON

DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS

PART II
Photography and Moving Pictures

WALTER BENJAMIN

KENDALL L. WALTON

ROGER SCRUTON

FLO LEIBOWITZ

JENNIFER BURRIS

PEG BRAND WEISER

PLATO

NOL CARROLL

ARTHUR C. DANTO

LAURA MULVEY

MARY DEVEREAUX

PAUL C. TAYLOR

PART III
Architecture

ROGER SCRUTON

EDWARD WINTERS

ADOLF LOOS

LE CORBUSIER

ROBERT VENTURI AND DENISE SCOTT BROWN

JACQUES DERRIDA

JENEFER ROBINSON

LARRY SHINER

JEANETTE BICKNELL

HINA JAMELLE

PART IV
Music

JERROLD LEVINSON

BEN CAPLAN AND CARL MATHESON

ANDREW KANIA

LEE B. BROWN

STEPHEN DAVIES

ROGER SCRUTON

PETER KIVY

JOHN MILLER CHERNOFF

ROBERT KRAUT

PHILIP ALPERSON

THEODORE GRACYK

JOEL RUDINOW

ANITA M. WATERS

PART V
Literature

TERRY EAGLETON

R. G. COLLINGWOOD

GARRY L. HAGBERG

MONROE C. BEARDSLEY

MICHEL FOUCAULT

RICHARD WOLLHEIM

RICHARD SHUSTERMAN

LU CHI

RICHARD W. BODMAN