Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought-Experiments is a teaching-focused resource, which highlights the contributions that imaginative scenarios--paradoxes, puzzles, and thought experiments alike--have made to the development of contemporary analytic aesthetics. The book is divided into sections pertaining to art-making, ontology, aesthetic judgements, appreciation and interpretation, and ethics and value, and offers an accessible summary of ten debates falling under each section.

Each entry also features a detailed annotated bibliography, making it an ideal companion for courses surveying a broad collection of topics and readings in aesthetics.

Key Features:

• Uses a problem-centered approach to aesthetics (rather than author- or theory-centered) making the text more inviting to first-time students of the subject
• Offers stand-alone chapters, allowing students to quickly understand an issue and giving instructors flexibility in assigning readings to match the themes of the course
• Provides up-to-date, annotated bibliography at the end of each entry, amounting to an extensive review of the literature on contemporary analytic aesthetics