Colin Lyas - Aesthetics (Fundamentals of Philosophy)

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“This is not a book for those who know but for those who want to
know. In writing it I had in mind three possible audiences. The
first is the general reader who hears from afar of exciting
controversies about art and who would like to know what is going
on. The second is the student who might be thinking of embarking
on a course in philosophical aesthetics and wants a survey of that
field. Thirdly, the publishers of this work wish to offer it as a text
for undergraduate aesthetics courses. With that in mind this book
is offered as a springboard into the subject. It tries to orientate the
reader by outlining a central problem in aesthetics and some
solutions which have been offered to it.
I have no great confidence that anything that I say is right in
any absolute sense. Nor is that important as long as the book
provokes thinking. I will be happy if readers take away an
impression of a vigorously boiling pot, and even happier if they are
moved to add fuel to the fire under it.
This book owes much to the thinking provoked in me by various
philosophers, some of whom I have, alas, never met, and who I
envy for their achievements in combining a love of, and often high
skills in, the arts with the ability to think with power and
imagination about them: Cyril Barrett, Stanley Cavell, Ted Cohen,
Ray Elliot, Lydia Goehr, Gary Iseminger, Peter Kivy, Roger
Scruton, Bob Sharpe, Michael Tanner, Ben Tilghman and Richard
Wollheim. Over everything I have written hovers the influence of
the late Frank Sibley, whose friendship and example over 30 years
influenced my thought and enhanced my life.
Parts of this book were written at Carleton College in Minnesota
and owe a very great debt to the influence of the life of that
admirable institution.”
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