Aesthetics

This introduction to the philosophy of art should be a useful text for students embarking on aesthetics courses.

Part 1 Stories: nature's mirror - imitation, representation and imagination; Anglo-Kantian attitudes; ne'er so well expressed; tales from the Vienna woods - Wittgenstein and after; after the Holocaust - Adorno's challenge and Beuys' answer. Part 2 Problems: the proof of the pudding: subjectivism confronted; the empty tomb - authors and meaning; Helen Schlegel's Beethoven - morals and truths; conclusions - the point of it all.