Historical Dictionary of Aesthetics

Unless you go to sources like Kelly (1998), aesthetics is usually a subject covered, with varying degrees of thoroughness, by general reference works to philosophy like Craig (2005) (RR 2006/11). In Craig, for instance, itself a digest of a larger work (the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy in ten volumes published in 1998), you find, and would expect to find, entries under “aesthetics” on attitudes (implying an idea of the aesthetic), concepts (objects, events, questions) and aesthetics itself (from the Greek “perception by the senses”, here applied first to art, with connectors to formalism and truth and criticism, and then...