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Author Wood, Robert E., 1934-

Title Placing aesthetics : reflections on the philosophic tradition / Robert E. Wood.

Publication Info. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Series in Continental thought ; 26
Series in Continental thought ; 26.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-406) and indexes.
Contents Introduction: Fine art and the field of experience -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Plotinus and the Latin Middle Ages -- Kant -- Hegel -- Schopenhauer -- Nietzsche -- Dewey -- Heidegger -- Conclusion -- Appendix: On sculptural production.
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Summary Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker''s philosophy. In Professor Robert Wood''s study, aesthetics is not peripheral but rather central to the speculative tradition and to human existence as such. In Dewey''s terms, aesthetics is "experience in its integrity." Its personal ground is in "the heart," which is the dispositional ground formed by genetic, cultural, and personal histo.
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Subject Aesthetics -- History.
Aesthetics.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Wood, Robert E., 1934- Placing aesthetics. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©1999 0821412809 (DLC) 99027142
ISBN 0821440454 (electronic book)
9780821440452 (electronic book)
0821412809 (alkaline paper)
9780821412800 (alkaline paper)
0821412817 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780821412817 (paperback ; alkaline paper)