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Author Beardsley, Monroe C.

Title Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present : a short history / Monroe C. Beardsley.

Publication Info. University : University of Alabama Press, 1975.
©1966

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Description 1 online resource (414 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in the humanities : Philosophy ; 13
Studies in the humanities (University, Ala.). Philosophy ; 13.
Note Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. First thoughts -- 2. Plato: Art and imitation ; Beauty ; Morality ; 3. Aristotle: The proper pleasure of tragedy ; Aristotle's answer to Plato ; 4. The later classical philosophers: Hellenism and Roman classicism ; Plotinus ; 5. The Middle Ages: St. Augustine ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; The theory of interpretation ; 6. The Renaissance: Neoplatonism ; Theory of painting ; Music and poetry ; 7. The Enlightenment: Cartesian rationalism: Poetics ; Theory of painting and music ; Toward a unified aesthetics ; 8. The Enlightenment: empiricism: Imagination and artistic creation ; The problem of taste: Shaftesbury to Hume ; The aesthetic qualities: Hogarth to Alison ; 9. German idealism: Immanuel Kant ; Objective idealism ; 10. Romanticism: The aesthetics of feeling ; Theories of the imagination ; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; 11. The artist and society: Art for art's sake ; Realism ; Social responsibility ; 12. Contemporary developments: Croce and the metaphysicians ; Santayana and Dewey ; Semiotic approaches ; Marxism-Leninism ; Phenomenology and existentialism ; Empiricism.
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Subject Aesthetics -- History.
Aesthetics.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Other Form: Print version: Beardsley, Monroe C. Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present. University : University of Alabama Press, 1975, ©1966 0817366237 (DLC) 75020138 (OCoLC)1528348
ISBN 0585249644 (electronic book)
9780585249643 (electronic book)
0817366237
9780817366230
0817366237