A History of Modern Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-73383-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 668 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 966 g

A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because of emotional impact - precisely what Plato criticized - and because it is a pleasurable free play of many or all of our mental powers. This set tells how these ideas have been synthesized or separated by aestheticians of modern times. This third volume shows how philosophers of art in Germany, Britain, and the United States continued the debate over cognitivist versus alternative approaches to aesthetic experience that was at the heart of the discipline in the previous two centuries, while responding to the intellectual challenges of their own times as well.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guyer, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. German Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century: 1. German aesthetics between the wars: Lukács and Heidegger; 2. German aesthetics after World War II; Part II. Aesthetics in Britain until World War II: 3. Bloomsbury, Croce, and Bullough; 4. First responses to Croce; 5. Collingwood; Part III. American Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: 6. Santayana; 7. The American reception of expression theory I: Parker to Greene; 8. Dewey; 9. The American reception of expression theory II: Cassirer and Langer; 10. After Dewey and Cassirer; Part IV. Wittgenstein and After: Anglo-American Aesthetics in the Second Part of the Twentieth Century: 11. Wittgenstein; 12. The first wave; 13. The second wave.

Über Autor(innen)

Guyer, Paul
Paul Guyer is the inaugural Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University, Rode Island. He is author of nine books, and editor of six collections on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, including four focusing on Kant's aesthetics. He has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and prizes, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize. A History of Modern Aesthetics was facilitated by a Laurance Rockefeller Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Professor Guyer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been president of both the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics.