| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
414 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. First thoughts: Bibliography -- 2. Plato: Art and imitation ; Beauty ; Morality ; Bibliography -- 3. Aristotle: Proper pleasure of tragedy ; Aristotle's answer to Plato ; Bibliography -- 4. Later classical philosophers: Hellenism and Roman classicism ; Plotinus ; Bibliography -- 5. Middle Ages: St. Augustine ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; Theory of interpretation ; Bibliography -- 6. Renaissance: Neoplatonism ; Theory of painting ; Music and poetry ; Bibliography -- 7. Enlightenment: Cartesian rationalism: Poetics ; Theory of painting and music ; Toward a unified aesthetics ; Bibliography -- 8. Enlightenment: empiricism: Imagination and artistic creation ; Problem of taste: Shaftesbury to Hume ; Aesthetic qualities: Hogarth to Alison ; Bibliography -- 9. German idealism: Immanuel Kant ; Objective idealism ; Bibliography -- 10. Romanticism: Aesthetics of feeling ; Theories of the imagination ; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; Bibliography -- 11. Artist and society: Art for art's sake ; Realism ; Social responsibility ; Bibliography -- 12. Contemporary developments: Croce and the metaphysicians ; Santayana and Dewey ; Semiotic approaches ; Marxism-Leninism ; Phenomenology and existentialism ; Empiricism ; Bibliography. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Subject |
Aesthetics -- History.
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Aesthetics. |
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History. |
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