The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein

The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein / Timothy M. Costelloe.

"This is the first single volume to offer a comprehensive and systematic account of British and American aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Costelloe, Timothy M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Aesthetics, British > History.
Aesthetics, American > History.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, American
Aesthetics, British
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
USA
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a brief history of 'aesthetics'
  • Part I. The age of taste. 1. Internal sense theorists ; 2. Imagination theorists ; 3. Associationist theorists
  • Part II. The age of Romanticism. 4. The picturesque ; 5. Wordsworth and the early Romantics ; 6. Victorian criticism
  • Part III. The age of analysis. 7. Theories of expression ; 8. Wittgenstein and afterwards.

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