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A History of Modern Aesthetics

Volume 3. The Twentieth Century

Author: Paul Guyer, Brown University, Rhode Island

Date Published: September 2018
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108733830

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A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because of emotional impact - precisely what Plato criticized - and because it is a pleasurable free play of many or all of our mental powers. This set tells how these ideas have been synthesized or separated by aestheticians of modern times. This third volume shows how philosophers of art in Germany, Britain, and the United States continued the debate over cognitivist versus alternative approaches to aesthetic experience that was at the heart of the discipline in the previous two centuries, while responding to the intellectual challenges of their own times as well.
- The most comprehensive history of aesthetics in more than half a century, and the first focusing on the modern period
- Offers both biographical information and extensive interpretation not only of the best-known figures in the field but also of many now less well-known but fascinating thinkers
- Illustrates its discussion with ample quotation, often providing the first English translation of passages from important works in aesthetics in German, Latin, and French
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- Date Published: September 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108733830
- length: 668 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 152 x 40 mm
- weight: 0.97kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. German Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century:
1. German aesthetics between the wars: Lukács and Heidegger
2. German aesthetics after World War II
Part II. Aesthetics in Britain until World War II:
3. Bloomsbury, Croce, and Bullough
4. First responses to Croce
5. Collingwood
Part III. American Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century:
6. Santayana
7. The American reception of expression theory I: Parker to Greene
8. Dewey
9. The American reception of expression theory II: Cassirer and Langer
10. After Dewey and Cassirer
Part IV. Wittgenstein and After: Anglo-American Aesthetics in the Second Part of the Twentieth Century:
11. Wittgenstein
12. The first wave
13. The second wave.
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Paul Guyer, Brown University, Rhode Island
Paul Guyer is the inaugural Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University, Rode Island. He is author of nine books, and editor of six collections on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, including four focusing on Kant's aesthetics. He has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and prizes, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize. A History of Modern Aesthetics was facilitated by a Laurance Rockefeller Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Professor Guyer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been president of both the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics.