Product Description

A textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, this book introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this area.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131987 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
'This book will take its place as the very best introduction to the subject on the market ... Carroll, because of his vast knowledge of the popular arts as well as traditional high arts, both old and new, is able to provide an enormous variety of examples that will speak to a very wide audience. I have been working in the philosophy or art for forty years, as student and scholar. I came away from reading Carrolls typescript with a better understanding of what I have been doing all those years. - Professor Peter Kivy, Rutgers University

'This is analytic philosophy of art at its best: thorough, rigorous, even-handed, eminently readable throughout ... Carroll's book generates an enthusiasm for the subject and liveliness of debate which will guarantee that its student readership will profit from it and be engaged by it.' - Professor Peter Lamarque, University of Hull

From the Back Cover
This book will take its place as the very best introduction to the subject on the market. Because of his vast knowledge of the popular arts as well as traditional high arts, both old and new, Carroll is able to provide an enormous variety of examples that will speak to a very wide audience."
Professor Peter Kivy, Rutgers University
"This is analytic philosophy at its best: thorough, rigorous, even-handed, eminently readable throughout ... Carrolls book generates an enthusisam for the subject and liveliness of debate which will guarrantee that its student readership will profit from it and be engaged by it."
Professor Peter Lamarque, University of Hull
Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics. It introduces the techniques of analytical philosophy in addition to a selection of major topics in the field. These include the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism,

About the Author
Noel Carroll is the Monroe C. Beardsley Professor of the Philosophy of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently also President of the American Society for Aesthetics and has been a documentary screenwriter and a journalist. Other books include, The Philosophy of Horror (Routledge, 1990) and A Philosophy of Mass Art (1998).