This second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley''s classic work.

"There is not much I could say to expand the reputation of this classic text, but it is a testament to Beardsley''s deep insight that I am finding the book useful for the study of Chinese aesthetics—which Beardsley himself never intended to broach. There may still be no better introduction to thinking about art and beauty." —Paul R Goldin, University of Pennsylvania