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Good. 1968 first edition Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Simla, India), 6 x 8 3/4 inches tall green cloth haredbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, xiii, 202 pp. Light rubbing to covers, and slight discoloration to spine. Four pages were creased during the printing process, but are quite legible. Otherwise, apart from slight age toning, a very good copy-clean and unmarked-in a slightly stained and edgeworn dust jacket, nicely preserved in a clear archival sleeve. ~SP14~ A 'full and useful' account of the state of aesthetics, with theory and counter-theory of expression, significance, organic unity, etc., with an account of the state of philosophical opinion on truth, imagination and theory of value. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as 'critical reflection on art, culture and nature.