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The Arts in Mind - Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters (Paperback)
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The Arts in Mind - Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters (Paperback)
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Amajor shift in critical attitudes toward the arts took place in
the eighteenth century. The fine arts were now looked upon as a
group, divorced from the sciences and governed by their own rules.
The century abounded with treatises that sought to establish the
overriding principles that differentiate art from other walks of
life as well as the principles that differentiate them from each
other. This burst of scholarly activity resulted in the
incorporation of aesthetics among the classic branches of
philosophy, heralding the cognitive turn in epistemology. Among the
writings that initiated this turn, none were more important than
the British contribution. The Arts in Mind brings together an
annotated selection of these key texts. A companion volume to the
editors' Tuning the Mind, which analyzed this major shift in world
view and its historical context, The Arts in Mind is the first
representative sampling of what constitutes an important school of
British thought. The texts are neither obscure nor forgotten,
although most histories of eighteenth-century thought treat them in
a partial or incomplete way. Here they are made available complete
or through representative extracts together with an editor's
introduction to each selection providing essential biographical and
intellectual background. The treatises included are representative
of the changed climate of opinion which entailed new issues such as
those of perception, symbolic function, and the role of history and
culture in shaping the world.>
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