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Title A companion to aesthetics / edited by Stephen Davies [and others]
Edition 2nd ed
Published Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 621 pages)
Series Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 3
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 3.
Contents A Companion to Aesthetics; Contributors; Preface; Historical Overviews; The Arts; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Index
Summary In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics.:.; Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.; Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art.; Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Aesthetics -- Encyclopedias
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Aesthetics
Ästhetik
Genre/Form Encyclopedias
Form Electronic book
Author Davies, Stephen, 1950-
ISBN 9781444310429
1444310429
9781405197939
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9781444310436
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