The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music.

• Provides a guide to the central traditional and cutting edge issues in aesthetics today.
  
• Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, including Peter Kivy, George Dickie, No l Carroll, Paul Guyer, Ted Cohen, Marcia Eaton, Joseph Margolis, Berys Gaut, Nicholas Wolterstrorff, Susan Feagin, Peter Lamarque, Stein Olsen, Francis Sparshott, Alan Goldman, Jenefer Robinson, Mary Mothersill, Donald Crawford, Philip Alperson, Laurent Stern and Amie Thomasson.
  
• Functions as the ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in aesthetics, art theory, and philosophy of art.

Author: Peter Kivy
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02/13/2004
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.72h x 6.69w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780631221319

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2004 pg. 305

About the Author
Peter Kivy is Board of Governors professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. His most recent books are The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius (2001), New Essays on Musical Understanding (2001), and Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2002).