The essays in the first part of this book, -Art and Aesthetics-, are devoted to the invention and development of aesthetics as a discipline. The essays topics range from the nature of analytic aesthetics and the invention of modern aesthetics to notions of the aesthetic and of aesthetics. Further study in this part explores the -aesthetic turn-, Bourdieu s critique of aesthetics and understanding and appreciating art. The second part, -Music, Literature, and Painting-, deals with questions of form and content, musical formalism, Susanne Langer s theory of music as well as with the analogy...