Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present : a short history / Monroe C. Beardsley.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in the humanities (University of Alabama) ; 13. | Studies in the humanities (University of Alabama). Philosophy.Publication details: University : University of Alabama Press, 1975, c1966.Description: 414 p. ; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 111.85 B38ae
- BH81 .B4 1975
- 08.41
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Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York.
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. First thoughts: Bibliography -- 2. Plato: Art and imitation ; Beauty ; Morality ; Bibliography -- 3. Aristotle: The proper pleasure of tragedy ; Aristotle's answer to Plato ; Bibliography -- 4. The later classical philosophers: Hellenism and Roman classicism ; Plotinus ; Bibliography -- 5. The Middle Ages: St. Augustine ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; The theory of interpretation ; Bibliography -- 6. The Renaissance: Neoplatonism ; Theory of painting ; Music and poetry ; Bibliography -- 7. The Enlightenment: Cartesian rationalism: Poetics ; Theory of painting and music ; Toward a unified aesthetics ; Bibliography -- 8. The Enlightenment: empiricism: Imagination and artistic creation ; The problem of taste: Shaftesbury to Hume ; The aesthetic qualities: Hogarth to Alison ; Bibliography -- 9. German idealism: Immanuel Kant ; Objective idealism ; Bibliography -- 10. Romanticism: The aesthetics of feeling ; Theories of the imagination ; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; Bibliography -- 11. The artist and society: Art for art's sake ; Realism ; Social responsibility ; Bibliography -- 12. Contemporary developments: Croce and the metaphysicians ; Santayana and Dewey ; Semiotic approaches ; Marxism-Leninism ; Phenomenology and existentialism ; Empiricism ; Bibliography.
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