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Art and Enlightenment : Scottish Aesthetics in the 18th Century.

During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friday, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Luton : Andrews UK, 2012.
Colección:Library of Scottish philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid - addressed themselves to aesthetic questions. Their inquiries revolved around a cluster of issues - the nature of taste, beauty and the sublime, how qualitative differences operate upon the mind ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:9781845404451
1845404459