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This book contains 46 chapters written by 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 contemporary developments in 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.Aesthetics is a vibrant growing field within philosophy. It addresses fundamental questions about the nature and value of art that cannot easily be answered by a study of the histories of the arts.This volume should prove invaluable both to curious newcomers, who want to learn more about aesthetics, and to professionals, who desire a ready reference work.
Contents: Part 1 History of aesthetics: Plato, Christopher Janaway; Aristotle, Nickolas Pappas; medieval aesthetics, Joseph Margolis; empiricism - Hutcheson and Hume, James Shelley; Kant, Donald W. Crawford; Hegel, Michael Inwood; Nietzsche, Ruben Berrios and Aaron Ridley; formalism, Noel Carroll; pragmatism, Richard Shusterman, Heidegger, Simon Glendinning; expressivism - Croce and Collingwood, Gordon Graham; Sibley, Colin Lyas; Foucault; Robert Wicks; postmodernism - Barthes and Derrida; David Novitz. Part 2 Aesthetic theory: definitions of art, Stephen Davies; the aesthetic, Alan Goldman; taste, Carolyn Korsmeyer; aesthetic universals, Denis Dutton; value of art, Mathew Kieran; beauty, Jennifer Anne McMahon; interpretation, Robert Stecker; imagination and make-believe, Gregory Currie; fiction, David Davies; narrative, Paisley Livingston; metaphor, Garry L. Hagberg; pictorial representation, Mark Rollins. Part 3 Issues and challenges: criticism, Roger Seamon; art and knowledge, Eileen John; art and ethics, Berys Gaut; art, expression, and emotion, Derek Matravers; tragedy, Alex Neill; humour, Ted Cohen; authenticity in performance, James O. Young; fakes and forgeries, Nan Stalnaker; high art versus low art; John A. Fisher; environmental aesthetics, Allen Carlson; feminist aesthetics, Sarah Worth. Part 4 The individual arts: Literature, Peter Lamarque; film, Murray Smith; photography, Patrick Maynard; painting, Dominic McIver Lopes; sculpture, Curtis L. Carter; architecture, Edward Winters; music, Mark DeBellis; dance, Graham McFee; theatre, James R. Hamilton. 

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