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Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present (Studies in the Humanities: No. 13) First Edition, First

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Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics

Before the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English—Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and the comprehensive volume by Gilbert and Kuhn. While each of these is interesting in its own ways, and together they cover a good deal of ground, none of them is very new. Thus none could take advantage of recent work on many important philosophers and periods and bring into a consideration of the past the best concepts and principles that have been developed by present-day philosophy.

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October 30, 1975
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“For those of us who want to know what philosophers have said about beauty and the arts, this book will be especially useful.”
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“Beardsley’s book accomplishes to perfection what the writer intended. It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before. . . . The distinguishing feature of his book is a n excitement over everything I aesthetics that has to do with symbols, meanings, language, and modes of interpretation. And this excitement has brought to light facets of the history f the subject never noticed before, or at least, not so clearly.”
—Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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At once a treatise for professionals and a guide for newcomers to the subject, Aesthetics is ideal both as an introductory survey of the literature on theories of art and beauty from earliest times to the present and as a text for courses in the philosophy of art. The author examines all major aspects of Western aesthetic thought, and a third of the book focuses specifically on 19th-and-20th century aesthetic theory.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Alabama Press; First Edition, First (October 30, 1975)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 414 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0817366237
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0817366230
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches

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Brian J. Braman

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Accessible and well written .

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ZizekLacan

Great on the Classics and up to German Idealism ... but weaker after that.

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2012

I'm a professor of literature and philosophy, and I've been using Beardsley's text for almost twenty years. It is very, very strong on classical literary criticism, as well as very strong on Kant and German Idealism. And, understandably enough, it's quite strong concerning formalist or New Criticism (a view which Beardsley was central in articulating). I tend to use this text for its coverage of Aristotle and Plato (you cannot do better than this one for a junior/senior level survey in this context). And he handles Romanticism pretty well, though so much has changed in contemporary understandings of the mode of thinking that it's really hard to say how each reader will receive the text. Beardsley's analyses of more contemporary critical schools -- psychoanalysis and neo-Marxism, most notably -- are pretty weak. But the text is some thirty or forty years old, and Professor Beardsley is no longer with us, so we can't hold it against him for failing to discuss, say, Zizek. Beardsley also fails to mention folks like Adorno (who he clearly could have engaged) or any of the French postmoderns. It's just not on his radar, and that's not really a critique. Times change.

Again, a great text for the groundwork. If you want another great text on psychoanalytic criticism, you can't be Elizabeth Wright's text of that name. It's a masterful intro.

Hope this helps the aesthetic theorists out there!

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Bernie Koenig

Great reference

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2005

I am currently working on my own project in aesthetics and hope to teach a course next year. Beardsley's book is a great reference, though I would not use it for a text unless I provided supplements to the class. One needs to see and hear examples of the art being discussed. His discussion of the figures is excellent, yet for an introductory course, one may want to have original sources to read.
What Beardsley does so well is to present every important view in historical context so that the reader gets a good idea of not only what the different views on art are, but why they were developed.
While it may not be a great text, it is a great resource.

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R. Miller

Painfully cluttered

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2000

I used this as a text for an undergraduate course in aesthetics. I would never use it again. Beardsley seems to not understand that one need not include EVERY detail regarding EVERY person who ever made a comment on some issue of aesthetics. The result is a confusing and cluttered read that drowns one in a myraid of loosely related facts. A bigger problem is: I'm not sure that anyone else tries to do what Beardsley does - present a survey, with analysis, of the history of western aesthetics.

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C. Medine

Very nice copy

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2019

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I needed this for a class, and it is a very good copy. Clean and in great shape. This is an older study of aesthetics, but it is very sound. Excellent, overall!

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Bernie Koenig

Great reference

Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2005

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I am currently working on my own project in aesthetics and hope to teach a course next year. Beardsley's book is a great reference, though I would not use it for a text unless I provided supplements to the class. One needs to see and hear examples of the art being discussed. His discussion of the figures is excellent, yet for an introductory course, one may want to have original sources to read.
What Beardsley does so well is to present every important view in historical context so that the reader gets a good idea of not only what the different views on art are, but why they were developed.
While it may not be a great text, it is a great resource.