B. Gaut, D. McIver Lopes (éd.), The Routledge companion to aesthetics

Berys Gaut, Dominic McIver Lopes (éd.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics - 2nd Edition
2005, 704 p.

32 €

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The second edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains fifty-four chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics. The volume is structured in four parts: History, Aesthetic Theory, Issues and Challenges, and Individual Arts.

It opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sibley and Derrida. The second part covers the central concepts and theories needed for a comprehensive understanding of aesthetics including the definitions of art, taste, value of art, beauty, imagination, fiction, narrative, metaphor and pictorial representation. Part three is devoted to the topics that have attracted much contemporary interest in aesthetics including art and ethics, environmental aesthetics and feminist aesthetics. The final part addresses the individual arts of music, photography, film, literature, theatre, dance, architecture and sculpture.

The second edition includes nine new entries: Creativity; Schopenhauer, Schiller and Schelling; Nelson Goodman; Style; Feminism; Ontology; Heidegger; Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Many other entries have been revised and further reading brought up to date.

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics is essential reading for anyone interested in aesthetics, art, literature, and visual studies.

Author Biography:

Berys Gaut is Lecturer in Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Dominc McIver Lopes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.

Voir un compte rendu de cet ouvrage sur le site de la Revue Francophone d'Esthétique : http://www.r-f-e.net/archivesactualites04.php