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- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Analytic Philosophy
- Section One Language, Mind, Epistemology
- Section Two Logic, Metaphysics, Science
- Section Three Analytic Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy
- Section Four Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion
- 24 Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
- 25 Philosophy of Religion
- Part II Continental Philosophy
- Part III Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy
- Part IV Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
- References
- Index
24 - Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
from Section Four - Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2019
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Analytic Philosophy
- Section One Language, Mind, Epistemology
- Section Two Logic, Metaphysics, Science
- Section Three Analytic Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy
- Section Four Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion
- 24 Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
- 25 Philosophy of Religion
- Part II Continental Philosophy
- Part III Bridge Builders, Border Crossers, Synthesizers, and Comparative Philosophy
- Part IV Epilogue: On the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
- References
- Index
Summary
Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein devoted some of their attention to aesthetics and the philosophy of art. But many analytic philosophers now are dismissive of the area. I doubt that this negative attitude is well founded. Analytic aestheticians grapple with questions as deep and subtle as any addressed elsewhere in philosophy, and its practitioners are as well trained as are their colleagues in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and so on. So rich is the range of issues that are considered by analytic philosophers of art that it is very difficult to list them all in a chapter such as this.
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- The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015 , pp. 323 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019