Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger

This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.

IntroductionPlatoThe Arts and Measure(Selections from Statesman)Imitative Art: Definition and Criticism(Selections from The Republic, Sophist, Laws)Artistic Inspiration(Selections from Ion, Phaedrus)The Love of Beauty(Selections from Symposium)AristotleWhat Is Art?(Selections from Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics)Translated by W. D. RossComing-to-Be and Artistic Production: Nature and Art(Selections from Parts of Animals, Physics, and Metaphysics)Translated by William Ogle, R. P. Hardie, and R. K. GayeStandard of Artistic Goodness(Selections from Nicomachean Ethics)Translated by W. D. RossBeauty(Selections from Metaphysics, Rhetoric)Translated by W. D. Ross, W. Rhys RobertsThe Imitative Art of Poetry(Selections from Poetics, Rhetoric)Translated by Ingram Bywater, W. Rhys RobertsTheory of Music (Selections from Politics)Translated by Benjamin JowettPlotinusEnnead I, Sixth Tractate: BeautyEnnead V, Eighth Tractate: On the Intellectual BeautySelections from Ennead VI, Seventh Tractate: Multiplicity of the Ideal-FormsSelections from Ennead III, Eight Tractate: Nature, Contemplation, and the OneTranslated by Stephen MacKennaAugustineSelections from De OrdineTranslated by Robert P. RussellSelections from De MusicaRedaction and Translation by W. F. Jackson KnightMarsilio FicinoSelections from Commentary on Plato's SymposiumTranslated by Sears Reynolds JayneShaftesburySelections from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times . Selections from Second Characters or the Language of FormsImmanuel KantSelections from Critique of JudgmentTranslated by J. H. BernardFriedrich Wilhelm Joseph von SchellingSelections from System of Transcendental IdealismTranslated by Albert HofstadterGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelSelections from The Philosophy of Fine ArtTranslated by F. P. B. OsmastonArthur SchopenhauerSelections from The World as Will and IdeaTranslated by R. B. Haldane J. KempFriedrich NietzscheSelections from The Birth of TragedyTranslated by Clifton P. FadimanBenedetto CroceSelections from "Aesthetics" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fourteenth Edition)John DeweySelections from Art as ExperienceMartin HeideggerThe Origin of the Work of ArtTranslated by Albert Hofstadter