An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience

An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art today.

Emmie Malone is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, USA. She is the author of an open educational history of philosophy coursebook, Inventing Knowledge: A Global & Historical Introduction to Philosophy (2025).

Elizabeth Scarbrough is Associate Teaching Professor at Florida International University, USA. She currently serves as a trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics and as the co-chair of their Feminist Caucus Committee.