Aesthetics

This volume makes available in English, for the first time, a work by the German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann, known for his ontology. Across its pages he takes up the full range of philosophical problems raised by the arts, approaching them as a systematic inquiry rather than a collection of separate essays. Graduate students in philosophy and scholars of twentieth-century Continental thought will find it directly relevant, as will students of aesthetics, art history and art criticism. It also speaks to readers outside academic philosophy who want to sharpen their understanding of, and response to, painting, literature and music.