Key Concepts

We talk about art all the time; we leave the cinema and discuss with our companions the film we have just seen; and we tell others about the novels we have just read. Aesthetics is nothing more than an attempt to order and reflect on all this talk about art, pointing out the logical presuppositions and consequences of what we say and focusing what it is we are trying to say. This book is a contribution to aesthetics so conceived, constructed as a set of short essays on some recurrent terms, concepts, motifs and flourishes of talk about the arts. The essays are offered in alphabetical order, and can be read in any sequence. The book is offered as a kind of dictionary of keywords, rather than as a systematic treatise.