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This is a book of great verve and great sweep. The authors write with a cogency and clarity which puts paid to any notion that their subject is too specialized: they ask and answer the big, simple questions. Any reader interested in art will be hooked immediately. I found their work enlivening and authoritative. -- Seamus Heaney This is an interesting and useful book in a somewhat neglected area of philosophy ... It will be of most use to those who already have an interest in aesthetics and who want to find out more about the history of the subject. Such a purpose it serves well The cultural climate of the book is richer and more diverse than that of most introductory books on aesthetics, and thereby has a better chance of making the subject come alive for the reader ... the chapter on literature is lucid, well argued and interesting. The authors do not overplay their historical cards, and pursue with impressive efficiency their conclusions on literary truth, value, and realism. This is a book of great verve and great sweep. The authors write with a cogency and clarity which puts paid to any notion that their subject is too specialized: they ask and answer the big, simple questions. Any reader interested in art will be hooked immediately. I found their work enlivening and authoritative. This is an interesting and useful book in a somewhat neglected area of philosophy ... It will be of most use to those who already have an interest in aesthetics and who want to find out more about the history of the subject. Such a purpose it serves well The cultural climate of the book is richer and more diverse than that of most introductory books on aesthetics, and thereby has a better chance of making the subject come alive for the reader ... the chapter on literature is lucid, well argued and interesting. The authors do not overplay their historical cards, and pursue with impressive efficiency their conclusions on literary truth, value, and realism.

This is a book of great verve and great sweep. The authors write with a cogency and clarity which puts paid to any notion that their subject is too specialized: they ask and answer the big, simple questions. Any reader interested in art will be hooked immediately. I found their work enlivening and authoritative. -- Seamus Heaney This is an interesting and useful book in a somewhat neglected area of philosophy ... It will be of most use to those who already have an interest in aesthetics and who want to find out more about the history of the subject. Such a purpose it serves well The cultural climate of the book is richer and more diverse than that of most introductory books on aesthetics, and thereby has a better chance of making the subject come alive for the reader ... the chapter on literature is lucid, well argued and interesting. The authors do not overplay their historical cards, and pursue with impressive efficiency their conclusions on literary truth, value, and realism. This is a book of great verve and great sweep. The authors write with a cogency and clarity which puts paid to any notion that their subject is too specialized: they ask and answer the big, simple questions. Any reader interested in art will be hooked immediately. I found their work enlivening and authoritative. This is an interesting and useful book in a somewhat neglected area of philosophy ... It will be of most use to those who already have an interest in aesthetics and who want to find out more about the history of the subject. Such a purpose it serves well The cultural climate of the book is richer and more diverse than that of most introductory books on aesthetics, and thereby has a better chance of making the subject come alive for the reader ... the chapter on literature is lucid, well argued and interesting. The authors do not overplay their historical cards, and pursue with impressive efficiency their conclusions on literary truth, value, and realism.

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Hugh Bredin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast

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