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Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics - The Move toward Empiricism (Hardcover)
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Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics - The Move toward Empiricism (Hardcover)
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Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges
theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, expression, the
sublime and the picturesque in their own right, distinct from later
theories of an exclusively aesthetic kind of experience. By drawing
on a wealth of thinkers, including several marginalised
philosophers, Dabney Townsend presents a novel reading of the
century to challenge our understanding of art and move towards a
unique way of thinking about aesthetics. Speaking of a
proto-aesthetic, Townsend surveys theories of taste and beauty
arising from the empiricist shift in philosophy. A proto-aesthetic
was shaped by the philosophers who followed Locke and accepted that
theories of taste and beauty must be products of experience alone.
Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Alexander Gerard and Thomas Reid
were among the most important advocates, joined by others who
re-thought traditional topics. Featuring chapters tracing its
philosophical principles, issues raised by the subjectivity of the
empiricist approach and the more academic proto-aesthetic formed
toward the end of the century, Townsend argues that Lockean
empiricism laid the foundations for what we now call aesthetics.
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