Early Modern Aesthetics

A clear and concise account of the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the development of aesthetics as a discipline in its own right.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments / Preface / Introduction /1. Ancients & Moderns / A Second Renaissance / Promoting Modernism / Defending Antiquity / Early Modernism / 2. The Fine Arts / Five Major Arts / National Traditions Systems of the Arts / Philosophical Systems / 3. The Critique of Taste / Varieties of Criticism / Physiology & Psychology / Society & History / Genius & Taste, Critique & Science / 4. Aesthetics / A New Science / Changing the Subject / The Philosophy of Art / The Embarrassed Etc. / 5. Early Modern Aesthetics Now /Artistic Modernism / The Latest Laocoön / Historicism & Naturalism / Aesthetics Now / Bibliography / Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

J. Colin McQuillan is associate professor of philosophy at St Mary's Unversity, Texas. He is the co-editor, with Joseph Tanke, of the Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics and author of Early Modern Aesthetics (Rowman & Littlefield International).

Zusammenfassung

A clear and concise account of the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the development of aesthetics as a discipline in its own right.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: J Colin McQuillan, J. Colin Mcquillan, McQuillan J. Colin
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781783482115
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-211-5
• Serien: Global Aesthetic Research; Global Aesthetic Research
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art