The book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in
aesthetics. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart
of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important
issues in aesthetics which are not specific to particular art
forms. These include the nature and proper scope of the aesthetic,
the intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgements, the correct
understanding of aesthetic judgements expressed through metaphors,
aesthetic realism versus anti-realism, the character of aesthetic
pleasure and aesthetic value, the aim of art and the artistic
expression of emotion. Other essays are focussed on central issues
in the aesthetics of particular art forms: two engage with the most
fundamental issue in the aesthetics of music, the question of the
correct conception of the phenomenology of the experience of
listening to music with understanding; and two consider the nature
of pictorial representation, one examining certain well-known
views, the other articulating an alternative conception of seeing a
picture as a depiction of a certain state of affairs. The final
essay in the volume is a comprehensive reconstruction and critical
examination of Wittgenstein's aesthetics, both early and late.
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