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Autumn 1954 • Vol. XVI No. 4 • Book Reviews |

New Aesthetics

Aesthetics and Language. Essays by ten authors. Edited with an Introduction by William Elton. Philosophical Library. $4.75.

Evidently philosophers have discovered something which shadows each part of philosophy. In just the last decade, these three works have appeared: Ethics and Language, Logic and Language (two volumes), and now Aesthetics and Language. One might say, whimsically, that philosophy is beginning to be seen in the light of its shadow, language, and so tends to look gray.

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