I need help on aesthetics! Will someone who knows philosophy please help me?

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Hello, everyone.

I’m a university student in a philosophy class on Aesthetics. I love the class, but I have a paper due soon (six-to-eight pages), and I’m having a great deal of difficulty in finding a topic.

Does anyone know of any interesting writings that philosophers have written on aesthetics? Or any aesthetics-related ideas that I would be able to find philosophical writings on? The only philosophical work I know of on aesthetics (aside from the texts we’ve used in class, which are generally by Francis Kovach and Roman Ingarten) is Kant’s “Critique of Judgment,” but that’s not really a direction that I find interesting.

If anyone has any ideas and would like to share, I’d be very grateful! Remember, this is a philosophy class - so my paper must be a real philosophy paper, i.e. not one that merely skims the surface or performs literary criticism, etc. For example, in class we address questions like, “Is beauty a transcendental?” or “Is, say, a musical work (for example) a purely intentional object?”

If you know what those questions mean, you might know enough philosophy to be able to help me! 🙂
 
For my Aesthetics class, I wrote a paper on the Marxist view of art. If you need famous contemporary philosophers of art, PM me and I could give you some names.
 
You could try Bonaventure’s “Retracting the Arts to Theology,” but I’m not sure how much that would help. You could also consider the Republic of Plato, which gives a series of discourses on art, its relation to the Forms, and its role in society. Sorry if this is no help!
 
I wrote my aesthetics paper on how to interpret art, which applied a lot of lit crit to art as a whole. Nick Wolterstorff has some work on Christian aesthetic theory. He thinks that creating art is the projection of a world. Quite interesting.

Another interesting question is on the relationship between art and emotion. Does art express emotion? Or is it expressive of emotion?

Plenty of continental philosophers have done aesthetics. A few analytic guys are Clive Bell, RG Collinwood, John Dewey, Nelson Goodman.

I’m not really an aesthetics guy though. Hope this helps a little.
 
Thank you for taking the time to help me, everyone. I very much appreciate the pointers! 🙂 God bless you all.
 
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