What is Philosophical Aesthetics?

 

Links (once again): to readings:

Hartmann, “Introduction: The Aesthetical Attitude and Aesthetics as Knowledge”

Woodfield, “Kunstwissenschaft vs. Ästhetik” 

Hammermeister, “Baumgarten, Mendelssohn” in The German Aesthetic Tradition

Berleant,  “The Co-optation of Sensibility and the Subversion of Beauty”

Forsey, “The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Aesthetics”

Mattick, “Aesthetics and Anti-Aesthetics in the Visual Arts”

Elkins, “Beyond the Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic” [Intro excerpt]