'Best tackles all the major themes in the arts, aesthetics and arts education. Students in Arts, Philosophy or Education Departments would pick [the book] up and read it with fascination and enthusiasm...Best provides throughout a most useful guide to all the major controversies...and a veritable cornucopia of further questions for students to take on in their own study and group seminars.' David Aspin, Monash University

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Rationality of Feeling. 2. Natural Response and Action. 3. Reasoning. 4. Questions. 5. Differences. 6. Free Expression. 7. Creativity. 8. Feeling. 9. Artist and Audience. 10. Two Attitudes. 11. The Particularity of Feeling. 12. The Aesthetic and the Artistic. 13. Art and Life. References. Index.

'Best tackles all the major themes in the arts, aesthetics and arts education. Students in Arts, Philosophy or Education Departments would pick [the book] up and read it with fascination and enthusiasm...Best provides throughout a most useful guide to all the major controversies...and a veritable cornucopia of further questions for students to take on in their own study and group seminars.' David Aspin, Monash University

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Rationality of Feeling. 2. Natural Response and Action. 3. Reasoning. 4. Questions. 5. Differences. 6. Free Expression. 7. Creativity. 8. Feeling. 9. Artist and Audience. 10. Two Attitudes. 11. The Particularity of Feeling. 12. The Aesthetic and the Artistic. 13. Art and Life. References. Index.

'Best tackles all the major themes in the arts, aesthetics and arts education. Students in Arts, Philosophy or Education Departments would pick [the book] up and read it with fascination and enthusiasm...Best provides throughout a most useful guide to all the major controversies...and a veritable cornucopia of further questions for students to take on in their own study and group seminars.' David Aspin, Monash University

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Rationality of Feeling. 2. Natural Response and Action. 3. Reasoning. 4. Questions. 5. Differences. 6. Free Expression. 7. Creativity. 8. Feeling. 9. Artist and Audience. 10. Two Attitudes. 11. The Particularity of Feeling. 12. The Aesthetic and the Artistic. 13. Art and Life. References. Index.