James O. Young is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of four books: Global Anti-realism (1995), Art and Knowledge (2001), Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (2008), Critique of Pure Music (2014), and over 50 articles in refereed journals. He has edited the four volume collection, Aesthetics: The Critical Concepts (2005) and (with Conrad Brunk) The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (2009). Another collection of essays, The Semantics of Aesthetic Judgements, is forthcoming from Oxford. He is Artistic Director of the Early Music Society of the Islands.

... the translation is a great success. It is both readable and, so far as I can tell with the aid of a French dictionary, highly accurate ... Young has done a great service by providing this annotated translation.

• PART ONE: WHERE WE ESTABLISH THE NATURE OF THE ARTS BY REFERENCE TO THE GENIUS THAT PRODUCED THEM; PART TWO: WHERE WE ESTABLISH THE PRINCIPLE OF IMITATION BY REFERENCE TO NATURE AND THE LAWS OF TASTE; PART THREE: IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLE OF IMITATION IS VERIFIED BY ITS APPLICATION TO VARIOUS ARTS; SECTION ONE: POETICAL ART CONSISTS IN THE IMITATION OF BELLE NATURE; SECTION TWO: ON PAINTING; SECTION THREE: ON MUSIC AND DANCE

James O. Young is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of four books: Global Anti-realism (1995), Art and Knowledge (2001), Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (2008), Critique of Pure Music (2014), and over 50 articles in refereed journals. He has edited the four volume collection, Aesthetics: The Critical Concepts (2005) and (with Conrad Brunk) The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (2009). Another collection of essays, The Semantics of Aesthetic Judgements, is forthcoming from Oxford. He is Artistic Director of the Early Music Society of the Islands.

... the translation is a great success. It is both readable and, so far as I can tell with the aid of a French dictionary, highly accurate ... Young has done a great service by providing this annotated translation.

• PART ONE: WHERE WE ESTABLISH THE NATURE OF THE ARTS BY REFERENCE TO THE GENIUS THAT PRODUCED THEM; PART TWO: WHERE WE ESTABLISH THE PRINCIPLE OF IMITATION BY REFERENCE TO NATURE AND THE LAWS OF TASTE; PART THREE: IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLE OF IMITATION IS VERIFIED BY ITS APPLICATION TO VARIOUS ARTS; SECTION ONE: POETICAL ART CONSISTS IN THE IMITATION OF BELLE NATURE; SECTION TWO: ON PAINTING; SECTION THREE: ON MUSIC AND DANCE

James O. Young is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of four books: Global Anti-realism (1995), Art and Knowledge (2001), Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (2008), Critique of Pure Music (2014), and over 50 articles in refereed journals. He has edited the four volume collection, Aesthetics: The Critical Concepts (2005) and (with Conrad Brunk) The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (2009). Another collection of essays, The Semantics of Aesthetic Judgements, is forthcoming from Oxford. He is Artistic Director of the Early Music Society of the Islands.

... the translation is a great success. It is both readable and, so far as I can tell with the aid of a French dictionary, highly accurate ... Young has done a great service by providing this annotated translation.

• PART ONE: WHERE WE ESTABLISH THE NATURE OF THE ARTS BY REFERENCE TO THE GENIUS THAT PRODUCED THEM; PART TWO: WHERE WE ESTABLISH THE PRINCIPLE OF IMITATION BY REFERENCE TO NATURE AND THE LAWS OF TASTE; PART THREE: IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLE OF IMITATION IS VERIFIED BY ITS APPLICATION TO VARIOUS ARTS; SECTION ONE: POETICAL ART CONSISTS IN THE IMITATION OF BELLE NATURE; SECTION TWO: ON PAINTING; SECTION THREE: ON MUSIC AND DANCE