Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning series of "New York Sun" articles about crime on the New York waterfront led to massive public policy shifts in labor laws, and inspired the classic film "On the Waterfront." The series of articles are collected here for the first time.
The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Just as nature offers aesthetic experiences beyond the reach of art, so the aesthetics of nature raises issues not contained within the ...
An attempt to explain the central question of aesthetics, why is art valued at all? Written by a philosopher and aesthetician, it takes the reader through the influential theories of art, examining them and suggesting a theory of its own, ranging across the visual arts, literature and music.
It has often been claimed, and frequently denied, that music derives some or all of its artistic value from the relation in which it stands to the emotions. This book presents and subjects to critical examination the chief theories about the relationship between the art of music and the emotions.
The book is a selection of Malcolm Budd's papers on aesthetics, some of which have been revised or added to. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important issues in aesthetics which are not specific to particular art forms. These include the nature and proper scope of the ...
The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Just as nature offers aesthetic experiences beyond the reach of art, so the aesthetics of nature raises issues not contained within the ...
Malcolm Budd tackles a relatively little-explored area of Wittgenstein's thought, which played an important part in his later writings, from "Philosophical Investigations" onwards. He gives an account of Wittgenstein's conception of the philosophy of psychology, and explains the way in which Wittgenstein thought that excesses of dualism and ...
Attempts to explain the central question of aesthetics and why we value art at all. Written by a leading philosopher and aesthetician, this work takes the reader through the influential theories of art, examines them and suggests a theory of its own.
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