Philosophies of art and beauty : selected readings in aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
Title:
Philosophies of art and beauty : selected readings in aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
Author:
Hofstadter, Albert, 1910-1989, author.
ISBN:
9780226348124
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Physical Description:
xix, 708 pages ; 21 cm.
Series:
A Phoenix book.
Phoenix books.
General Note:
"In this edition a later, revised translation ... of Heidegger's essay 'The origin of the work of art' has been substituted for the translation used in the original edition."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Plato. The arts and measure ; Imitative art: definition and criticism ; Artistic inspiration ; The love of beauty. -- Aristotle. What is art? ; Coming-to-be and artistic production: nature and art ; Standard of artistic goodness ; Beauty ; The imitative art of poetry ; Theory of music. -- Plotinus. Ennead I, sixth tractate: Beauty ; Ennead V, eighth tractate: On the intellectual beauty ; Selections from Ennead VI, seventh tractate: Multiplicity of the ideal-forms ; Selections from Ennead III, eighth tractate: Nature, contemplation, and the one. -- Augustine. Selections from De Ordine ; Selections from De Musica.
Marsilio Ficino. Selections from Commentary on Plato's Symposium. --Shaftsbury. Selections from Characteristics of men, manners, opinions, times ... ; Selections from Second characters or the language of forms. --Immanuel Kant. Selections from Critique of judgment. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. Selections from System of transcendental idealism. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Selections from The philosophy of fine art. -- Arthur Schopenhauer. Selections from The birth of tragedy. -- Benedetto Croce. Selections from "Aesthetics" -- John Dewey. Selections from Art as experience. -- Martin Heidegger. The origin of the work of art.
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