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Placing aesthetics : reflections on the philosophic tradition /

Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker''s philosophy. In Professor Robert Wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Robert E., 1934- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©1999.
Colección:Series in Continental thought ; 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker''s philosophy. In Professor Robert Wood''s study, aesthetics is not peripheral but rather central to the speculative tradition and to human existence as such. In Dewey''s terms, aesthetics is "experience in its integrity." Its personal ground is in "the heart," which is the dispositional ground formed by genetic, cultural, and personal histo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-406) and indexes.
ISBN:0821440454
9780821440452