Aesthetics: An Introduction

Tietolipas #86

by George Dickie

philosophy

Genres: Philosophy, Art

200 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1971

About the author

George Dickie is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago. His specialities include aesthetics, philosophy of art and Eighteenth Century theories of taste.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is well written and well organized. It is dated though. For example, emphasis on the open-question argument is far less important since the work of Kripke. Still, as someone new to philosophy of art and aesthetics, I learned some of the lay of the land, at least as it was thought to be in the early 1970s. It was worth the hours I put into it and it has motivated me to pick up a contemporary introductory text.

[Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

A terrific place to start, but is at times too authoritative for an introduction and overview.