Readership: Philosophers, art theorists, and music theorists
Malcolm Budd, Formerly University College London
Malcolm Budd taught philosophy at University College London for more than thirty years before taking early retirement from the Grote chair to concentrate on his writing. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and became President of the British Society of Aesthetics in 2004.
Review(s) from previous edition"This important collection by the prominent aesthetician Malcolm Budd brings together fourteen papers on the nature of aesthetics judgement and value, expression and movement in music, and depiction ... I strongly recommend his book. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Introduction 1: Aesthetic Judgements, Aesthetic Principles and Aesthetic Properties 2: Aesthetic Essence 3: The Acquaintance Principle 4: The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgements 5: The Pure Judgement of Taste as an Aesthetic Reflective Judgement 6: Understanding Music 7: The Characterization of Aesthetic Qualities by Essential Metaphors and Quasi-Metaphors 8: Musical Movement and Aesthetic Metaphors 9: Aesthetic Realism and Emotional Qualities of Music 10: On Looking at a Picture 11: The Look of a Picture 12: Wollheim on Correspondence, Projective Properties and Expressive Perception 13: Wittgenstein on Aesthetics Index
