Main entry:

Guyer, Paul, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

A history of modern aesthetics / Paul Guyer, Brown University.

Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Description:

3 volumes ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Volume 1. The eighteenth century. Introduction. 1. Prologue: The origins of modern aesthetics. Aesthetics of truth I : Shaftesbury, Aesthetics of truth II : Wolff, The introduction of feeling and play : Addison, Crousaz, and Du Bos -- Part 1. Aesthetics in Britain, 1725-1800. 2. From Hutcheson to Hume : the sense of beauty. Hutcheson, Turnbull and Harris, Hume ; 3. Hogarth, Burke, and Gerard : forms of feeling. Hogarth, Burke, Gerard ; 4. From Kames to Alison and Stewart : the final flowering. Kames, Smith, Beattie, Reynolds, Reid, Alison, Stewart -- Part 2. Two French aesthetics in mid-century. 5. André to Rousseau. André, Batteux, The Encyclopedists, Diderot, Rousseau -- Part 3. Three German aesthetics between Wolff and Kant. 6. The first generation of Wolffian aesthetics. Gottsched and his critics, Baumgarten and Meier ; 7. German aesthetics at mid-century. Mendelssohn, Winckelmann and Lessing ; 8. Breaking with rationalism : from Herder to Moritz. Herder I, Sulzer, Herz, Moritz -- Part 4. Kant and after. 9. Kant. The task for Kant's aesthetics, Kant's theory of free play and the exclusion of emotion, Kant's theory of fine art, The moral significance of the aesthetic ; 10. After Kant. Heydenreich, Schiller, Goethe and Humboldt, Herder II : Herder's critique of Kant, Herbart --
Volume 2. The nineteenth century. Introduction -- Part 1. German aesthetics in the first half of the nineteenth century. 1. Early romanticism and idealism : Schlegel and Schelling. Back to Kant, Hölderlin, Schlegel, and romanticism, Schelling ; 2. High romaticism in the shadow of Schelling. Jean Paul, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Mill, Emerson ; 3. The high tide of idealism : Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Schleiermacher. Schopenhauer, Hegel, Schleiermacher ; 4. In the wake of Hegel. Solger, Vischer, Rosenkranz, Lotze -- Part 2: (Mostly) British aesthetics in the second half of the nineteenth century. 5. Ruskin. Ruskin, Turner, and truth, Truth as sincerity, Conclusion, with an excursus on Arnold ; 6. Aestheticism : the aestheticist movement. Moralism and "Art for art's sake" : from Cousin to Baudelaire, "This hard, gem-like flame" : Pater, Wilde ; 7. Bosanquet and Tolstoy. Bosanquet, Tolstoy -- Part 3. German aesthetics in the second half of the nineteenth century. 8. In the shadow of Schopenhauer. Nietzsche : introduction, Nietzsche : "The Dionysiac world view", Nietzsche : The birth of tragedy, Nietzsche after The birth of tragedy, Von Hartmann ; 9. Neo-Kantian aesthetics. Fechner, Cohen, Cohn 4. Munsterberg, Dilthey ; 10. Psychological aesthetics : play and empathy. Spencer's revival of the concept of play, The aesthetics of empathy : Robert Vischer, Lipps, and Volkelt, Groos : the play of animal and man, Psychological aesthetics in the United States : Puffer, Psychological aesthetics in Britain : Lee --
Volume 3. The twentieth century. Introduction -- Part 1. German aesthetics in the twentieth century. 1. German aesthetics between the wars : Lukacs and Heidegger. Lukács, Heidegger ; 2. German aesthetics after World War II. Gadamer, Benjamin and Adorno, Marcuse, Coda: Seel's aesthetics of appearing -- Part 2. Aesthetics in Britain until World War II. 3. Bloomsbury, Croce, and Bullough. Moore, Bell, and Fry, Croce, Bullough ; 4. First responses to Croce. Carritt, Reid, Alexander ; 5. Collingwood. Collingwood's early aesthetics, Collingwood's later aesthetics -- Part 3. American aesthetics in the first half of the twentieth century. 6 Santayana. The sense of beauty, Reason in art ; 7. The American reception of expression theory I : Parker to Greene. Parker, Ducasse, Prall, Stace, Greene ; 8. Dewey. Experience and nature, Art as experience ; 9. The American reception of expression theory II : Cassirer and Langer. Cassirer, Langer ; 10. After Dewey and Cassirer. Gotshalk, Isenberg, Beardsley, Goodman -- Part 4. Wittgenstein and after : Anglo-American aesthetics in the second part of the twentieth century. 11. Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein and the Tractatus, The philosophical investigations, The lectures and conversations on aesthetics ; 12, The first wave. From Passmore to Mandelbaum, Danto to Dickie, Back to Danto ; 13. The second wave. Sibley, Wollheim, Scruton, Cavell -- Epilogue: Truth, feeling, and play in recent aesthetics. Playing with emotions, Art and morality, Aesthetics and knowledge of nature, Loving beauty.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781107643222 (set)
1107643228 (set)
9781107038035 (hardback ; v. 1)
1107038030 (hardback ; v. 1)
9781107038042 (hardback ; v. 2)
1107038049 (hardback ; v. 2)
9781107038059 (hardback ; v. 3)
1107038057 (hardback ; v. 3)

Subject:

Aesthetics, Modern History.
PHILOSOPHY History & Surveys Modern.
Aesthetics, Modern.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291746
Call No.: BH151 .G89 2014
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 291926
Call No.: BH151 .G89 2014
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 291927
Call No.: BH151 .G89 2014
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available