Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

This volume brings together the finest research on aesthetics and the philosophy of art by stalwart critics and leading scholars in the field.

Autorentext

Prabha Shankar Dwivedi is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, India.

Inhalt

Introduction Section I: Aesthetics and aesthetic perception 1. **Aesthetics beyond aesthetics: Regarding the contemporary relevance of the aesthetic and recharting the field of aesthetics 2. Aesthetic perception 3. Aesthetic experience: A review 4. Aesthetic qualities, aesthetic experience, aesthetic value 5. On play and aesthetic theory 6. Aesthetes, critics, and the aesthetic attitude 7. Art and goodness: Collingwood's aesthetics and Moore's ethics compared 8. On the challenge of art to philosophy: Aesthetics at the end of epistemology Section II: Art, artefact, and the philosophy of art 9. **Aristotle and Freud on art 10. Art and morality 11. The artefactuality of art 12. Representation, representativeness and "non-representational" art 13. Imitation and art 14. Theory of impersonal art 15. East and west in Coomaraswamy's theory of art