The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics [Paperback]

The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aestheticscontains 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 three is devoted to issues and challenges in aesthetics, including art and ethics, art and religion, creativity, environmental aesthetics and feminist aesthetics. The final part addresses the individual arts, including music, photography, film, videogames, literature, theater, dance, architecture and design.

With ten new entries, and revisions and updated suggestions for further reading throughout, The Routledge Companion to Aestheticsis essential for anyone interested in aesthetics, art, literature, and visual studies.

Part 1: History of aesthetics  1. Plato Christopher Janaway  2. Aristotle Nickolas Pappas  3. Medieval aesthetics John Haldane  4. Empiricism: Hutcheson and Hume James Shelley  5. Kant Donald W. Crawford  6. Hegel Michael Inwood  7. Idealism: Schopenhauer, Schiller and Schelling Dale Jacquette  8. Nietzsche Ruben Berriosand Aaron Ridley  9. Formalism No?l Carroll  10. Pragmatism: Dewey Richard Shusterman  11. Expressivism: Croce and Collingwood Gordon Graham  12. Heidegger Thomas E. Wlõ