Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition,
contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual
art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical
aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics
that are familiar to students such as painting, photography and
movies, architecture, music, literature, and performance, as well
as contemporary subjects such as mass art, popular arts, the
aesthetics of the everyday, and the natural environment. Essays are
drawn from both the analytic and continental traditions, and
multiple others that bridge this divide between these traditions.
Throughout, readings are brief, accessible for undergraduates, and
conceptually focused, allowing instructors many different syllabi
possibilities using only this single volume. Key Additions to the
Fourth Edition The fourth edition is expanded to include a total of
ninety-six essays with nineteen new essays (nine of them written
exclusively for this volume), updated organization into new
sections, revised introductions to each section, an increased
emphasis on contemporary topics, such as stand-up comedy, the
architecture of museums, interactivity and video games, the ethics
of sexiness, trans/gendered beauty, the aesthetics of junkyards and
street art, pornography, and the inclusion of more diverse
philosophical voices. Nevertheless, this edition does not neglect
classic writers in the traditional aesthetics: Plato, Aristotle,
Hume, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Collingwood, Bell, and writers of
similar status in aesthetics. The philosophers writing new chapters
exclusively for this fourth edition are: * Sondra Bacharach on
street art * Aili Bresnahan on appreciating dance * Hina Jamelle on
digital architecture * Jason Leddington on magic * Sheila Lintott
on stand-up comedy * Yuriko Saito on everyday aesthetics * Larry
Shiner on art spectacle museums in the twenty-first century * Peg
Brand Weiser on how beauty matters * Edward Winters on the feeling
of being at home in vernacular architecture, as in such urban
places as bars.
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