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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: history of modern aesthetics
  name:
    name part: Guyer, Paul
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 3 volumes ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Volume I: The development of aesthetics was one of the great accomplishments of eighteenth-century philosophy, as the classical conception of aesthetic experience as a form of knowledge came under pressure from increasing recognition of the emotional impact of art and from increasing emphasis on the value of freedom in the moral and political thought of the century. This opening volume of A History of Modern Aesthetics recounts how philosophers in Britain, France and Germany developed these new approaches and searched for ways to combine them with the cognitivism of traditional aesthetics. 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 book tells how these ideas have been synthesized or separated by both the best-known and lesser-known aestheticians of modern times, focusing on Britain, France and Germany in the eighteenth century, Germany and Britain in the nineteenth and Germany, Britain, and the United States in the twentieth.
  table of contents: Volume 1. The eighteenth century -- Volume 2. The nineteenth century -- Volume 3. The twentieth century.
  note: Paul Guyer, Brown University.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics, Modern
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
  classification: BH151 .G89 2014
  classification: 111/.850903
  identifier: 9781107643222 (set)
  identifier: 1107643228 (set)
  identifier: 9781107038035 (hardback : v. 1)
  identifier: 1107038030 (hardback : v. 1)
  identifier: 9781107038042 (hardback : v. 2)
  identifier: 1107038049 (hardback : v. 2)
  identifier: 9781107038059 (hardback : v. 3)
  identifier: 1107038057 (hardback : v. 3)
  identifier: 2013050046
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131230
    record change date: 20151206101159.0
    record identifier: in00003455991