Design and Aesthetics: New Ontological and Epistemic Perspectives
Abstract
The study of aesthetics proceeds along many lines, containing both the theory of beauty and the theory of art, and investigating both aesthetic objects and aesthetic experiences, employing description, prescription, analysis, and explanation." 1 Thus begins Władysław Tatarkiewicz's seminal work on the history of aesthetics from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century, the period in which aesthetics emerged as a coherent field of philosophy, thanks to thinkers such as Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten.Tatarkiewicz invari-
Fields of Study & Subjects
Ethics
Aesthetics
and Art
Art
and Perception
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1–12
- Publication date
- 31 January 2026
- Language
- EN