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Origins and the Enlightenment : aesthetic epistemology from Descartes to Kant /

"The best way to understand the Enlightenment's obsession with origins is to study it in conjunction with the contemporary conceptualization of originality as a criterion of aesthetic value, Catherine Labio maintains. Her expansive survey of the era's thought places special emphasis o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Labio, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The best way to understand the Enlightenment's obsession with origins is to study it in conjunction with the contemporary conceptualization of originality as a criterion of aesthetic value, Catherine Labio maintains. Her expansive survey of the era's thought places special emphasis on epistemology and is genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing on such fields as anthropology, geometry, historiography, literary criticism, and political economy."
"Labio analyzes the views held by a variety of European thinkers - including Baumgarten, Condillac, Descartes, Kant, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Vico, and Edward Young - on the origins of ideas, languages, nations, nature, and wealth. Throughout, the author deals with a wide range of primary and secondary materials."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 193 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.
ISBN:9781501727436
1501727435