Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Contemplating the Undefinable

Adele Tomlin

Experience and the Nature of the Aesthetic

1. Aesthetic Essence

Malcolm Budd

2. The Aesthetic: From Experience to Art

Paul Crowther

3. The Dialectic of Aesthetics: the New Strife between Philosophy and Art

Christophe Menke

4. Experiential Theories of Aesthetic Value

Gary Iseminger

The Value and Scope of Aesthetic Experience

5. The Aesthetic: From Analysis to Eros

Richard Shusterman

6. On the Scope of Aesthetic Experience

Martin Seel

7. Refined Emotion in Aesthetic Experience

Kathleen Higgins

8. Taste, Food and the Limits of Pleasure

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Aesthetic Experience, Artists, and Philosophies of Art

9. Aesthetic Experience, Art and Artists

Noel Carroll

10. Between Being and Doing: Aesthetics at the Crossroads

Jean-Pierre Cometti

11. Schopenhauer and the Foundations of Aesthetic Experience

Alex Neill

About the Author

Richard Schusterman is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Temple University, USA. Adele Tomlin is Graduate Tutor at Kings College London and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.