Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. First thoughts -- 2. Plato: Art and imitation ; Beauty ; Morality ; 3. Aristotle: The proper pleasure of tragedy ; Aristotle's answer to Plato ; 4. The later classical philosophers: Hellenism and Roman classicism ; Plotinus ; 5. The Middle Ages: St. Augustine ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; The theory of interpretation ; 6. The Renaissance: Neoplatonism ; Theory of painting ; Music and poetry ; 7. The Enlightenment: Cartesian rationalism: Poetics ; Theory of painting and music ; Toward a unified aesthetics ; 8. The Enlightenment: empiricism: Imagination and artistic creation ; The problem of taste: Shaftesbury to Hume ; The aesthetic qualities: Hogarth to Alison ; 9. German idealism: Immanuel Kant ; Objective idealism ; 10. Romanticism: The aesthetics of feeling ; Theories of the imagination ; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; 11. The artist and society: Art for art's sake ; Realism ; Social responsibility ; 12. Contemporary developments: Croce and the metaphysicians ; Santayana and Dewey ; Semiotic approaches ; Marxism-Leninism ; Phenomenology and existentialism ; Empiricism
