This work provides an introduction to aesthetics. It traces aesthetics from its ancient beginnings through the changes it underwent in the 18th, 19th and the fi... » 

This work provides an introduction to aesthetics. It traces aesthetics from its ancient beginnings through the changes it underwent in the 18th, 19th and the first half of 20th century. The responses in the 1960s of the cultural theories to these earlier developments are discussed in detail. «