Introduction to Aesthetics (Second Edition) (CD-ROM)

Author: Zhang Fa
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Publish Date: 2004-10-22
Features: Based on critical reflection on the history of world aesthetics, this book particularly incorporates the essence of ancient Chinese aesthetics and the latest achievements of Western aesthetics. It reconstructs the principles of aesthetics according to contemporary disciplinary requirements. It offers new insights and in-depth discussions on important aesthetic issues, such as the nature of beauty, the aesthetic process, the basic types of beauty, cultural models of beauty, the anthropological origins of beauty, and the cosmological foundations of beauty. The book presents profound questions within the context of concrete aesthetics and art, while also elevating the discussion to a certain theoretical level through the analysis of specific aesthetics and art.