Introduction: Chapter Abstracts --;1. Aesthetic Value --;2. Aesthetic Emotion --;3. Semblances of Emotion: The Sad Saint Bernard --;4. Association Theory of Meaning --;5. The Association Theory of Meaning: An Illustration --;6. An Analysis of Express in Aesthetics --;7. Metaphor, Music and Humor --;8. A Cognitive-Emotive Analysis of Hanslick's Formalism --;9. Is Music a Language? --;10. Humanistic Art in Broad Perspective.
Emotion in Aesthetics is the first book on aesthetics to provide an extensive theory of emotion; a well-developed naturalistic theory of ethics as applied to aesthetics and emotion. As a result there is still much confusion in aesthetics about aesthetic emotion and related concepts, such as the expression theory of emotion.