Placing Aesthetics by Wood, Robert E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Abbreviations Preface I. Introduction: Fine Art and the Field of Experience

The Threefold Structure of the Field of Experience The Manifold Forms of Art A Preliminary Descriptive System of the Fine Arts Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, and Dialogic Approaches

II. Plato

Art in the Purged City The Center of Order Mimesis The Treatment of Art in the Republic The Ladder of Ascent to Beauty Itself Response A Brief Excursus: Plato and Wright on Architecture

III. Aristotle

Meanings of the Term Art Nature Illumined by Art: Plato and Aristotle Art as Imitation Division of the Performing Arts The Definition of Tragedy Response

IV. Plotinus and the Latin Middle Ages

Plotinus Aquinas among the Latin Medievals Response

V. Kant

Critique of Pure Reason Critique of Practical Reason Critique of Judgment The Beautiful The Sublime Art and Genius Nature’s Ultimate and Final Purpose Response Epilogue: Hume’s Notion of Aesthetic Community Response

VI. Hegel

Hegel, Enlightenment, and Christianity The Starting Point of the Hegelian System The Development of the System The Nature of Art The Basic Stages and Forms of Art Response

VII. Schopenhauer

A Synthesis of Kant, Plato, and the Indian Tradition The World as Will and Representation Aesthetic Experience and the Work of Art The Forms of Art Response

VIII. Nietzsche

Nietzsche’s Horizon Nietzsche’s Aesthetics Response

IX. Dewey

Overcoming the Platonic Splits Overcoming the Cartesian Splits Further Modifications of Traditional Notions Dewey’s Aesthetics Response

X. Heidegger

Situating Heidegger “The Origin of the Work of Art” What Is a Thing? Philosophy, Science, Art, and the Lifeworld Response

XI. Conclusion

The Sensory Field The Cultural World Transcendence

Appendix: On Sculptural Production

Descriptions Reflections

Notes Bibliography Index of Names Subject Index