Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present : a short history /

Beardsley, Monroe C.

Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present : a short history / Monroe C. Beardsley. - University : University of Alabama Press, 1975, c1966. - 414 p. ; 21 cm. - Studies in the humanities : Philosophy ; 13 . - Studies in the humanities (University of Alabama). ; 13. Studies in the humanities (University of Alabama). Philosophy. .

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

Includes bibliographies and index.

First thoughts: Bibliography -- Plato: Art and imitation ; Beauty ; Morality ; Bibliography -- Aristotle: The proper pleasure of tragedy ; Aristotle's answer to Plato ; Bibliography -- The later classical philosophers: Hellenism and Roman classicism ; Plotinus ; Bibliography -- The Middle Ages: St. Augustine ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; The theory of interpretation ; Bibliography -- The Renaissance: Neoplatonism ; Theory of painting ; Music and poetry ; Bibliography -- The Enlightenment: Cartesian rationalism: Poetics ; Theory of painting and music ; Toward a unified aesthetics ; Bibliography -- The Enlightenment: empiricism: Imagination and artistic creation ; The problem of taste: Shaftesbury to Hume ; The aesthetic qualities: Hogarth to Alison ; Bibliography -- German idealism: Immanuel Kant ; Objective idealism ; Bibliography -- Romanticism: The aesthetics of feeling ; Theories of the imagination ; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; Bibliography -- The artist and society: Art for art's sake ; Realism ; Social responsibility ; Bibliography -- Contemporary developments: Croce and the metaphysicians ; Santayana and Dewey ; Semiotic approaches ; Marxism-Leninism ; Phenomenology and existentialism ; Empiricism ; Bibliography. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Aesthetics--History.

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