Beyond autonomy in eighteenth-century British and German aesthetics / edited by Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, and Mattias Pirholt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Axelsson, Karl, 1976- editor.

Flodin, Camilla, editor.

Pirholt, Mattias, 1975- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in eighteenth century philosophy

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, British--18th century.

Aesthetics, British.

Aesthetics, German--18th century.

Aesthetics, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 302 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Karl Axelsson is Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at Sd̲ertr̲n University, Stockholm, Sweden. His most recent book is Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society (2019). Axelsson is also the Swedish translator of the third Earl of Shaftesbury's The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody (forthcoming). Camilla Flodin holds a PhD in Aesthetics from Uppsala University and is currently Lecturer and Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Sd̲ertr̲n University, Stockholm, Sweden. She has published extensively on Adorno's aesthetics and the art-nature relationship in German Romanticism and Idealism. Flodin is also a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Adorno (forthcoming). Mattias Pirholt is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Sd̲ertr̲n University, Stockholm, Sweden. His most recent book publications include Grenzerfahrungen: Studien zu Goethes Ästhetik (2018) and Das Abenteuer des Gewh̲nlichen: Alltag in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Moderne (co-edited with Thorsten Carstensen, 2018).

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Aesthetic Concepts, Morality, and Society in the British Tradition

1 The Evolution of Aesthetic Concepts 1700-1800

2 Beauty, Nature, and Society in Shaftesbury's the Moralists

3 Force Makes Right

or, Shaftesbury's Moral- Aesthetic Dynamics

4 Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Subject for Taste

5 Adam Smith's Aesthetic Psychology

Part II: British and German Liaisons

6 Aesthetic Autonomy is Not the Autonomy of Art

7 From Spiritual Taste to Good Taste? Reflections on the Search for Aesthetic Theory's Pietist Roots

8 Is there a Middle Way? Mendelssohn on the Faculty of Approbation

9 Germaine de Staël and the Politics of Taste

Part III: Science and a New Model of Society Around 1800

10 Goethe's Exploratory Idealism

11 Physics as Art: Johann Wilhelm Ritter's Construction Projects

12 Hölderlin's Higher Enlightenment

13 Rethinking Disinterestedness Through the Rise of Political Economy

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 25, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Beyond autonomy in eighteenth-century British and German aesthetics

ISBN:

9780429330254

0429330251

9781000077285

1000077284

9781000077247

1000077241

9781000077261

1000077268

Publisher Number:

99988450306

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