Reviews of the first edition:
`This is an immensely useful book that belongs in every college library and on the bookshelves of all serious students of aesthetics.' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
`The succinctness and clarity of the essays will make this a source that individuals not familiar with aesthetics will find extremely helpful.' The Philosophical Quarterly
`An outstanding resource in aesthetics...this text will not only serve as a handy reference source for students and faculty alike, but it could also be used as a text for a course in the philosophy of art.' Sondra Bacharach, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
`Attests to the richness of modern aesthetics...the essays in central topics - many of which are written by well-known figures - succeed in being informative, balanced and intelligent without being too difficult.' British Journal of Aesthetics
'This handsome reference volume. . .belongs in every library.' Choice
'The Routledge Companions to Philosophy have proved to be a useful series of high quality surveys of major philosophical topics and this volume is worthy enough to sit with the others on a reference library shelf.' - Philosophy and Religion
`The sheer eclecticism of this work - the variety of content, method, outlook and sensibility - shows the vigour and vitality that aesthetics as a branch of modern philosophy has come to assume in the last two or three decades. Its compilation is a real achievement, and it will appeal to a very wise range of readers. Some of these essays are, and will remain, classics of their kind.' Richard Wollheim