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Philosophies of art and beauty : selected readings in aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger / edited by Albert Hofstadter and Richard Kuhns.

Hofstadter, Albert, 1910-1989 (Author). Kuhns, Richard, 1924-2010 (Added Author).

Summary:

This anthology [includes the editors'] essays [which] were translated especially for this volume, [and] also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection.... This volume [is] an aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation.... This collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions. It [is a] sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.

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ISBN: 0226348121
ISBN: 9780226348124
Physical Description: xix, 708 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"In this edition a later, revised translation ... of Heidegger's essay 'The origin of the work of art' has been substituted for the translation used in the original edition."--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Plato. The arts and measure ; Imitative art: definition and criticism ; Artistic inspiration ; The love of beauty. -- Aristotle. What is art? ; Coming-to-be and artistic production: nature and art ; Standard of artistic goodness ; Beauty ; The imitative art of poetry ; Theory of music. -- Plotinus. Ennead I, sixth tractate: Beauty ; Ennead V, eighth tractate: On the intellectual beauty ; Selections from Ennead VI, seventh tractate: Multiplicity of the ideal-forms ; Selections from Ennead III, eighth tractate: Nature, contemplation, and the one. -- Augustine. Selections from De Ordine ; Selections from De Musica. Marsilio Ficino. Selections from Commentary on Plato's Symposium. -- Shaftsbury. Selections from Characteristics of men, manners, opinions, times ... ; Selections from Second characters or the language of forms. -- Immanuel Kant. Selections from Critique of judgment. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. Selections from System of transcendental idealism. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Selections from The philosophy of fine art. -- Arthur Schopenhauer. Selections from The world as will and idea -- Friedrich Nietzsche. Selections from The birth of tragedy. -- Benedetto Croce. Selections from "Aesthetics" -- John Dewey. Selections from Art as experience. -- Martin Heidegger. The origin of the work of art.