STEPHEN DAVIES teaches philosophy at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Definitions of Art, Musical Meaning and Expression, and Musical Works and Performances, and the editor of Art and Its Messages.ANANTA C. SUKLA is Professor of English at Sambalpur University in India. He is the founding editor of The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and the editor of the Praeger series Studies in Art, Culture, and Communication.

[A] thoughtfully sequenced and interrelated series of essays on art and it essence.

• IntroductionTheoretical PerspectivesEssential Distinctions for Art Theorists by Stephen DaviesArt, Essence, and Wittgenstein by Graham McFeeNature, Gardens, Art: The Problem of Appreciation by Stephanie RossHistorical PerspectivesArt and Beauty in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Liberato Santoro-BrienzaArt and the Aesthetic: Hume, Kant, and the Essence of Art by Dabney TownsendHegel and Nietzsche on Life and Dramatic Character by Robert WicksCross Cultural PerspectivesAbhinavagupta's Definition of Art: Ontology verses Essentialism by Ananta Ch. SuklaRepresenting the Essence of Objects: Art in the Japanese Aesthetic Tradition by Yuriko SaitoWestern and Non-Western Concepts of Art: Universality and Authenticity by Larry ShinerContemporary PerspectivesHistorical Definitions of Art by Kathleen StockThe Ontology of Art Interpretation by Robert SteckerAesthetification as a Feminist Strategy: On Art's Relational Politics by Monique RoelofsUniversalism, Evolutionary Psychology, and Aesthetics by Denis DuttonBibliographyIndex

STEPHEN DAVIES teaches philosophy at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Definitions of Art, Musical Meaning and Expression, and Musical Works and Performances, and the editor of Art and Its Messages.ANANTA C. SUKLA is Professor of English at Sambalpur University in India. He is the founding editor of The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and the editor of the Praeger series Studies in Art, Culture, and Communication.

[A] thoughtfully sequenced and interrelated series of essays on art and it essence.

• IntroductionTheoretical PerspectivesEssential Distinctions for Art Theorists by Stephen DaviesArt, Essence, and Wittgenstein by Graham McFeeNature, Gardens, Art: The Problem of Appreciation by Stephanie RossHistorical PerspectivesArt and Beauty in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Liberato Santoro-BrienzaArt and the Aesthetic: Hume, Kant, and the Essence of Art by Dabney TownsendHegel and Nietzsche on Life and Dramatic Character by Robert WicksCross Cultural PerspectivesAbhinavagupta's Definition of Art: Ontology verses Essentialism by Ananta Ch. SuklaRepresenting the Essence of Objects: Art in the Japanese Aesthetic Tradition by Yuriko SaitoWestern and Non-Western Concepts of Art: Universality and Authenticity by Larry ShinerContemporary PerspectivesHistorical Definitions of Art by Kathleen StockThe Ontology of Art Interpretation by Robert SteckerAesthetification as a Feminist Strategy: On Art's Relational Politics by Monique RoelofsUniversalism, Evolutionary Psychology, and Aesthetics by Denis DuttonBibliographyIndex

STEPHEN DAVIES teaches philosophy at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Definitions of Art, Musical Meaning and Expression, and Musical Works and Performances, and the editor of Art and Its Messages.ANANTA C. SUKLA is Professor of English at Sambalpur University in India. He is the founding editor of The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and the editor of the Praeger series Studies in Art, Culture, and Communication.

[A] thoughtfully sequenced and interrelated series of essays on art and it essence.

• IntroductionTheoretical PerspectivesEssential Distinctions for Art Theorists by Stephen DaviesArt, Essence, and Wittgenstein by Graham McFeeNature, Gardens, Art: The Problem of Appreciation by Stephanie RossHistorical PerspectivesArt and Beauty in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Liberato Santoro-BrienzaArt and the Aesthetic: Hume, Kant, and the Essence of Art by Dabney TownsendHegel and Nietzsche on Life and Dramatic Character by Robert WicksCross Cultural PerspectivesAbhinavagupta's Definition of Art: Ontology verses Essentialism by Ananta Ch. SuklaRepresenting the Essence of Objects: Art in the Japanese Aesthetic Tradition by Yuriko SaitoWestern and Non-Western Concepts of Art: Universality and Authenticity by Larry ShinerContemporary PerspectivesHistorical Definitions of Art by Kathleen StockThe Ontology of Art Interpretation by Robert SteckerAesthetification as a Feminist Strategy: On Art's Relational Politics by Monique RoelofsUniversalism, Evolutionary Psychology, and Aesthetics by Denis DuttonBibliographyIndex