Modernity, Aesthetics, and the Bounds of Art / Peter J. McCormick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCormick, Peter J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Illuminating the tensions between theory, history, and interpretation in contemporary aesthetics, Peter McCormick traces here the intellectual history of our understanding of the relationship between philosophy and the arts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION

PART I. REREADING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AESTHETICS

Introduction

1. Early Modern Aesthetics: An Analytic Reading

2. Early Modern Aesthetics: A Hermeneutic Reading

3. The Subjectivization of Aesthetics

4. Rereading Kant on Aesthetic Judgments

5. Balzano, Kant's Aesthetics, and a Realist Tradition

INTERLUDE

PART II. REALIST BACKGROUNDS OF MODERN AESTHETICS

6. Dilthey and Aesthetic Experience

7. Brentano and Descriptive Intentionalism

8. Husserl and Aesthetic Psychologism

9. Twardowski and Aesthetic Contents

10. Meinong and Aesthetic Feelings

11. Ingarden and Aesthetic Structures

CONCLUSION

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4608-1

OCLC:

1114790766