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Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present

"Beardsley's book accomplishes to perfection what the writer intended. It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before. ... The distinguishing feature of his book is a n excitement over everything I aesthetics that has to do with symbols, meanings, lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beardsley, Monroe C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; General Bibliography; I. First Thoughts; Bibliography; II. Plato; Art and Imitation; Beauty; Morality; Bibliography; III. Aristotle; The Proper Pleasure of Tragedy; Aristotle's Answer to Plato; Bibliography; IV. The Later Classical Philosophers; Hellenism and Roman Classicism; Plotinus; Bibliography; V. The Middle Ages; St. Augustine; St. Thomas Aquinas; The Theory of Interpretation; Bibliography; VI. The Renaissance; Neoplatonism; Theory of Painting; Music and Poetry; Bibliography; VII. The Enlightenment: Cartesian Rationalism; Poetics; Theory of Painting and Music.
  • Toward a Unified AestheticsBibliography; VIII. The Enlightenment: Empiricism; Imagination and Artistic Creation; The Problem of Taste: Shaftesbury to Hume; The Aesthetic Qualities: Hogarth to Alison; Bibliography; IX. German Idealism; Immanuel Kant; Objective Idealism; Bibliography; X. Romanticism; The Aesthetics of Feeling; Theories of the Imagination; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; Bibliography; XI. The Artist and Society; Art for Art's Sake; Realism; Social Responsibility; Bibliography; XII. Contemporary Developments; Croce and the Metaphysicians; Santayana and Dewey; Semiotic Approaches.
  • Marxism-LeninismPhenomenology and Existentialism; Empiricism; Bibliography; Index.