Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present / Monroe C. Beardsley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beardsley, Monroe C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--History.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, [Alabama] : University of Alabama Press, 1966.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics Before the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English--Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and the comprehensive volume by Gilbert and Kuhn.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; General Bibliography; I. First Thoughts; Bibliography; II. Plato; Art and Imitation; Beauty; Morality; Bibliography; III. Aristotle; The Proper Pleasure of Tragedy; Aristotle's Answer to Plato; Bibliography; IV. The Later Classical Philosophers; Hellenism and Roman Classicism; Plotinus; Bibliography; V. The Middle Ages; St. Augustine; St. Thomas Aquinas; The Theory of Interpretation; Bibliography; VI. The Renaissance; Neoplatonism; Theory of Painting; Music and Poetry; Bibliography; VII. The Enlightenment: Cartesian Rationalism; Poetics; Theory of Painting and Music

Toward a Unified AestheticsBibliography; VIII. The Enlightenment: Empiricism; Imagination and Artistic Creation; The Problem of Taste: Shaftesbury to Hume; The Aesthetic Qualities: Hogarth to Alison; Bibliography; IX. German Idealism; Immanuel Kant; Objective Idealism; Bibliography; X. Romanticism; The Aesthetics of Feeling; Theories of the Imagination; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; Bibliography; XI. The Artist and Society; Art for Art's Sake; Realism; Social Responsibility; Bibliography; XII. Contemporary Developments; Croce and the Metaphysicians; Santayana and Dewey; Semiotic Approaches

Marxism-LeninismPhenomenology and Existentialism; Empiricism; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-8976-8

0-585-24964-4

OCLC:

44963183