Abstract

Interest in aesthetics has grown in recent years, yet since Virgil Aldrich’s Philosophy of Art appeared in 1963, there has been no small, general survey that could be joined with primary sources to introduce students to the field. Several such books are now emerging on the scholarly scene, with Professor Eaton’s Basic Issues in Aesthetics the first to appear. This is a helpful development, for the teaching of general aesthetics has subsisted in large part on various collections of primary materials and on a very few extended comprehensive works, most notably Beardsley’s Aesthetics, Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism, and it has prospered mainly from the ingenuity of teachers of aesthetics.