About the Book: Aesthetics Approaches Concepts and Problems
This work may well be expected to serve as an introduction to the study of
aesthetics, suitable alike to the needs of our students and the general reader.
A fair part of it deals with some of the more difficult concepts and problems
one encounters in contemporary Western philosophical discourse on art. At the
same time, the book is studded with illustrative references to contemporary
aesthetic practice in India. This is true of almost every individual chapter;
and the close is provided by a critical and comprehensive, yet intelligible
account of the Indian theory of rasa, to which some