Aesthetics and Language

by William Elton

Aesthetics and Language offers a fresh, unbiased scrutiny of the linguistic confusions of traditional aesthetics. Gathering into one convenient volume essays difficult of access outside of professional circles, it is the only available collection of analytical aesthetics - an application of the stimulating new movement which exposes the verbal pitfalls of much philosophizing. It thus fills an important gap.

186 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

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CONTENTS

I. Introduction (William Elton)

II. The Function of Philosophical Aesthetics (W.B. Gallie)

III. The Dreariness of Aesthetics (J.A. Passmore)

IV. Feelings (Gilbert Ryle)

V. The Expression Theory of Art (O.K. Bouwsma)

VI. A Study of the Irrefutability of Two Aesthetic Theories (Beryl Lake)

VII. Some Distinctive Features of Arguments Used in Criticism of the Arts (Margaret Macdonald)

VIII. Critical Communication (Arnold Isenberg)

IX. The Use of "Good" in Aesthetic Judgments (Helen Knight)

X. Logic and Appreciation (Stuart Hampshire)

XI. Art and the 'Object of Art' (Paul Ziff)