Singularities

Educated at the universities of York (BA) and Cambridge (PhD), Aaron Ridley has taught at UCNW Bangor, Ithaca College, NY, and, since 1994, the University of Southampton. His chief research interests are aesthetics, especially musical aesthetics, and the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

• Introduction PART 1: CREATIVITY 1: R.G. Collingwood: a Philosophy of Art 2: Against Musical Ontology 3: Pieces of Music and Pinches of Salt 4: Acting for Aesthetic Reasons 5: Why Ethics and Aesthetics Are Practically the Same 6: Making Art, Making Craft 7: Kant's Aesthetic Ideas PART 2: JUDGEMENT 8: On the Musically Possible 9: Song as a Whole 10: Bad Art 11: Critical Conversions 12: Persona Sometimes Grata: Appreciating Expressive Music 13: Religious Music for Godless Ears 14: Art Works: On Functional Beauty

Aaron Ridley's Singularities is an enjoyable collection of fourteen essays that deal with a wide variety of topics in the philosophy of art or rather, as Aaron Ridley prefers to say, "aesthetics."