A book by one of the main domestic experts in the field of aesthetics, a world-renowned scientist, Prof. V.V. Bychkova is a textbook of a new generation, based on the latest achievements of modern humanitarian knowledge and focused on the mentality of youth of the 21st century. It is a complete course in aesthetics.

Section one provides a brief outline of the history of aesthetic thought and a modern understanding of the foundations, main ideas, problems and categories of classical aesthetics, fundamentally supported by vivid historical and aesthetic material from antiquity to the twentieth century.< /p>

The second section contains unique material of the latest non-classical aesthetics, which arose on the basis of the avant-garde-modernist-postmodernist artistic and aesthetic experience of the twentieth century. and current philosophical and aesthetic discourse. The appendix presents the topics of the main seminar sessions on the course and a wide range of recommended topics for essays, term papers and diploma works with the corresponding bibliography.

The textbook is equipped with name and subject indexes. Designed for undergraduates, graduate students and teachers of humanities - philosophers, philologists, art historians, cultural experts, theologians; it will also be useful to everyone who wants to improve their aesthetic taste.