Call for Book Reviews

The American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-journal (ASAGE) is seeking proposals for book reviews.  Send the title, author and date of publication of the book that you would like to review, along with a 100 - 200 word description of why you think this book should be reviewed in ASAGE, and why you are qualified to do the review, to editor(at)asage(dot)org.  Proposals for book reviews must be approved by the editor in advance.

Any successful book review will begin with a sympathetic summary of the main discussions and arguments of the book, before launching into a critical perspective on the material. The critical discussion must be civil and should be secondary to a discussion of the content. Reviews should also evaluate the book's potential impact on the field and aid readers in determining a book's usefulness for teaching, particularly for introductory aesthetics classes.

Book reviews must be no more than 1000 words in length and will be reviewed by the editor or book review editor. A maximum of four book reviews will be published per year. The reviewer may not be a student of the author whose book is being reviewed. Book reviewers must acquire their own copy of the volume to be reviewed.

List of  suggested books for review (your own ideas are welcome!):

Arguing About Art
Edited by Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley
Routledge, 2007 

Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art?
By Peter Goldie, Elisabeth Schellekens
Routledge, May 2009

The Philosophy of Literature
By Peter Lamarque
Wiley-Blackwell,
June 2008

The Philosophy of Motion Pictures

By Nöel Carroll
Wiley-Blackwell,
January 2008

Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology
By Julian Dodd
Mar 2007

The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched
By Paul Woodruff