Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present : a short history / Monroe C. Beardsley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
LOC classification:
  • BH81 .B4 1975
Other classification:
  • 08.41
Contents:
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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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 111.85 B38ae (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000755632

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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