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A History of Æsthetic / by Bernard Bosanquet.
LIBRA - Rare BH81 .B6 1957 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bosanquet, Bernard, 1848-1923.
- Series:
- Meridian library ; ML8.
- The Meridian Library ; ML8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--History.
- Aesthetics.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- v unnumbered pages-xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 502 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- History of aesthetic
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Meridian Books, 1957.
- Contents:
- Proposed treatment, and its connection with the definition of beauty
- The creation of a poetic world, and its first encounter with reflection
- The fundamental outlines of Greek theory concerning the beautiful
- Signs of progress in Greek theory concerning the beautiful
- Alexandrian and Greco-Roman culture to the reign of Constantine the Great
- Some traces of the continuity of the æsthetic consciousness throughout the Middle Ages
- A comparison of Dante and Shakespeare in respect of some formal characteristics
- The problem of modern æsthetic philosophy
- The data of modern æsthetic philosophy
- Kant
- the problem brought to a focus
- The first steps of a concrete synthesis
- Schiller and Goethe
- Objective idealism
- Schelling and Hegl
- "Exact" æsthetic in Germany
- The methodical completion of objective idealism
- Beginnings of a theoretical reunion of content and expression.
- Notes:
- "Meridian Books Library Edition first published August 1957. First printing July 1957."
- "Reprinted by arrangement with The Macmillan Company. First Edition published 1932."
- Contains prefaces to first (1892) and second (1904) editions.
- Publisher's advertisements: [6] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-498) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok May 1960 Philadelphia".
- OCLC:
- 1307212
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