Approach to Aesthetics
Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 May 2001
- ISBN 9780198238997
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 243x162x21 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Frank Sibley (1923-1996) was one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics of the last fifty years, whose published papers are required reading for serious students of the subject. Approach to Aesthetics will be welcomed both for bringing together these well known papers, and for its inclusion of new, previously unpublished papers. This timeless body of work will continue to demand and reward the attention of scholars and students.
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Approach to Aesthetics is the complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics. Their appearance within a single volume will be welcome to scholars and students of aesthetics. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of five substantial papers written in his later years and hitherto unpublished. Most of the published papers are concerned with a group of related topics: the nature of aesthetic qualities and their relation to non-aesthetic qualities, the relation of aesthetic description to aesthetic evaluation, the different levels of evaluation, the objectivity of aesthetic judgement. The later papers constitute both a continuation and a significant development of Sibley's individual approach to aesthetics. One group of papers discusses the distinction between attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, first elucidating the distinction, and then considering its application to 'beautiful' and 'ugly'. Another major paper is an extensive study of the aesthetic significance of tastes and smells, a topic Sibley considered to be much neglected, whose examination could throw interesting light on the boundaries of the concept of the aesthetic.
This collection constitutes a wide ranging yet coherent account of aesthetics by one of the most acute philosophical minds of his generation, one which is and will continue to be a source of controversy and a model of analytical method.
The publication of a collection of Sibley's papers is a major event, and the editors, as well as Oxford University Press, are to be congratulated for this collection and its companion volume of critical essays.
Table of Contents:
Editors' Introduction
Aesthetic Concepts
Aesthetics and the Looks of Things
Aesthetic and Non-aesthetic
About Taste
Colours
Objectivity and Aesthetics
Particularity, Art and Evaluation
General Criteria and Reasons in Aesthetics
Originality and Value
Arts or the Aesthetic - which comes first?
Making Music Our Own
Adjectives, Predicative and Attributive
Aesthetic Judgements: Pebbles, Faces and Fields of Litter
Some Notes on Ugliness
Tastes, Smells and Aesthetics
Why the Mona Lisa May Not Be a Painting
