Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics

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Assethetics is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the filed define asethetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature".Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of axiology, a branch of philosophy, and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.Aesthetics studies new ways of seeing and of perceiving the world.Aesthetics includes many things together like art, music, poetry, literature etc., so it becomes very important and easy to understand these very factes of aesthetics in aproper way. This book starts with the introductory chapter aesthetics, followed by defining the concept of art, history of aesthetics, philosophy of aesthetics and aesthetics of music, poetry, literature and paintings.Eastern and western aesthetics and aesthetics in Indian architecture, art,literature and science have been defined as a separate chapter.This book concludes with a chapter on some of the great aestheticians which is very important to know as they are the persons who have contributed immensely towards the development of aesthetics over the years.

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Dr Rana Purushottam Kumar Singh has spent his early life and received his schooling in Bihar, the place of Buddha s activities. He did his B.A. in Philosophy (Hons.) from Allahabad University, Uttar Pradesh and M.A., M.Phil and PhD. In Buddhist Studiesfrom Delhi University. Since the day of registration into Ph.D in the Department of Buddhist Studies, he has been taking classes of Post Graduate and Certificate courses. He is an expert of Pali Language and Literature along with Abhidhamma based Buddhist Philosophy, After completing PhD. Degree, he has been awarded with Guest Lecturer and also Ad hoc Lecturer post in the same Department from where he has completed his higher education. He has also worked as Project Fellow under the DSA Programme of the UGC. He has presented many research articles at the national and international conferences in India and abroad and few of them have been published in different journals of repute. Currently he is associated Department as a Lecturer of ICHR