Aesthetic Essays - Malcolm Budd

The field of aesthetics is flourishing, particularly in Britain. Much work is being done on concepts that are not unique to aesthetics, such as representation and ontology, and on particular issues that arise from the arts, such as the nature of fiction and the status of photography. There is a tangle of problems which lie in the dark heart of aesthetics and centre on a problem dear to Kant and Hume: if a judgement has as its basis the pleasure felt by an individual, how can it merit universal assent? In this collection of essays Malcolm Budd does not consider the question in quite this form; indeed, he argues that it would be a mistake to do so. However, many of the essays are aimed at the ‘abstract core’ of the subject, identified by Budd as thirteen related questions. The book collects together those essays that have not already been

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