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 ...
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.
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 ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Aristotelian Society
Date Published: 1993
Description: Very Good+/No Jacket. Clean Copy Containing the papers read before the Society during the second term of the one hundred and fourteenth session 1992/3. Slightly wear to head of spine and corners of cover, text clean and tight. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Aristotelian Society
Date Published: 1993
Description: Good + Used Containing the papers read before the society during the first term of the one hundred and fourteenth session, 1992/3. Contributions from D.H. Mellow, Quassim Cassam, Gregory McCulloch, Bernard Williams, Michael Martin. Cover slightly rubbed, contents clean and sound. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Compton Press
Date Published: 1978
Description: Good + Used The symposia read at the joint session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association at the University of the East Anglia. Contributions from G. R. Grice, John McDowell, I.G. McFetridge, Martin Hollis, Quentin Skinner, W. Newton-Smith, Steven Lukes, Colwyn Williamson, Stuart Brown, William Twining, Barrie Paskins, Colin McGinn, James Hopkins. Plain blue binding with 'The Aristotelian Society' written on spine in marker; light marks and creases to cover, otherwise good ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780415087797ISBN:0415087791
Description: New. The most fundamental debate in the philosophy of music involves the question of whether there is an artistically important connection between music and the emotions. Many theories of the nature and significance of music as an art form have maintained... read more
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