ABSTRACT

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 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 Aesthetics is essential for anyone interested in aesthetics, art, literature, and visual studies.

part I|209 pages

History of Aesthetics

chapter 1|10 pages

Plato

chapter 2|12 pages

Aristotle

chapter 3|11 pages

Medieval Aesthetics

chapter 4|10 pages

Empiricism

Hutcheson and Hume

chapter 5|10 pages

Kant

chapter 6|10 pages

Hegel

chapter 7|11 pages

Idealism

Schopenhauer, Schiller and Schelling

chapter 8|10 pages

Nietzsche

chapter 9|9 pages

Formalism

chapter 10|10 pages

Pragmatism

chapter 11|10 pages

Expressivism

Croce and Collingwood

chapter 12|10 pages

Heidegger

chapter 13|11 pages

Phenomenology

Merleau-Ponty and Sartre

chapter 14|11 pages

Adorno

chapter 15|11 pages

Benjamin

chapter 16|11 pages

Foucault

chapter 17|9 pages

Postmodernism

Barthes and Derrida

chapter 18|11 pages

Goodman

chapter 19|10 pages

Sibley

chapter 20|10 pages

Wollheim

part II|162 pages

Aesthetic Theory

chapter 21|11 pages

Definitions of Art

chapter 22|11 pages

Categories of Art

chapter 23|11 pages

Ontology of Art

chapter 24|11 pages

The Aesthetic

chapter 25|10 pages

Taste

chapter 26|11 pages

Aesthetic Universals

chapter 27|11 pages

Art and Evolution

chapter 28|10 pages

Value of Art

chapter 29|10 pages

Beauty

chapter 30|11 pages

Interpretation

chapter 32|10 pages

Fiction

chapter 33|11 pages

Narrative

chapter 34|11 pages

Metaphor

chapter 35|11 pages

Depiction

part III|146 pages

Issues and Challenges

chapter 36|9 pages

Criticism

chapter 37|10 pages

Art and knowledge

chapter 38|10 pages

Art and ethics

chapter 40|10 pages

Tragedy

chapter 41|7 pages

Humor

chapter 42|10 pages

Creativity

chapter 43|10 pages

Style

chapter 45|11 pages

Fakes and forgeries

chapter 48|10 pages

Feminist aesthetics

chapter 49|10 pages

Art and religion

part IV|141 pages

The Individual Arts

chapter 50|11 pages

Literature

chapter 51|11 pages

Poetry

chapter 52|11 pages

Theater

chapter 53|11 pages

Film

chapter 54|10 pages

Videogames

chapter 55|10 pages

Comics

chapter 56|11 pages

Photography

chapter 57|10 pages

Painting

chapter 58|10 pages

Sculpture

chapter 59|11 pages

Design

chapter 60|12 pages

Architecture

chapter 61|10 pages

Music

chapter 62|11 pages

Dance