The Routledge companion to aesthetics / / edited by Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827779203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-69713-6; 0-203-81303-0; 1-299-48275-9; 1-136-69714-4
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (705 p.)
• Collana: Routledge philosophy companions
• Altri autori (Persone): GautBerys Nigel; LopesDominic
• Disciplina: 111/.85
• Soggetti: Aesthetics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: History of aesthetics -- Aesthetic theory -- Issues and challenges.
• Sommario/riassunto: The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over sixty chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics.This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault, Goodman, and Wollheim. The second part covers the central concepts and theories of aesthetics, including the definitions of art, taste, the value of art, beauty, imagination, fiction, narrative, metaphor and pictorial representation. Part thre