Aesthetics is no longer merely the philosophy of perception and the arts. Nelson Goodman
Arthur Danto and others have contributed to develop aesthetics from a field at the margins of
philosophy to one permeating substantial areas of theoretical and practical philosophy. New
approaches like environmental and ecological aesthetics widened the understanding of the
aesthetics of nature. The contributions in this volume address the most important issues in
contemporary aesthetics many of them from a Wittgensteinian perspective. The 39th
International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium organized by the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein
Society was held at Kirchberg am Wechsel Lower Austria from August 7th to 13th 2016 and
aimed at taking an inventory of important tendencies and positions in contemporary aesthetics.
The volume includes a selection of the invited papers.
