Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology

From Plato's Ion to works by contemporary philosophers, this anthology showcases classic texts to illuminate the development of philosophical thought about art and the aesthetic. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of readings on aesthetics and the philosophy of art currently available.

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• Brings together the most significant writings in aesthetics and philosophy of art from the past 2500 years
  
• Each section includes a useful introductory essay which provides an overview of developments in the field
  
• Broken down into three sections: Historical Sources, Modern Theories, and Contemporary Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
  
• Thorough, systematic, and flexible, including two alternative tables of contents (historical and topical); an ideal textbook and guide to the field

• Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
• Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
• Mo Tzu: Basic Writings
• Styles of Radical Will
• Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics
• Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
• Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
• Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art
• Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings