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A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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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 second volume tells how over
the course of the century philosophers in Germany, Britain, and
eventually the United States struggled to return to a broader
approach to the value of aesthetic experience by finding room for
the emotional and playful aspects of art.
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