J. Colin McQuillan

Early Modern Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Early Modern Aesthetics is a concise and accessible guide to the history of aesthetics in the early modern period. J. Colin McQuillan shows how philosophers concerned with art and beauty positioned themselves with respect to the ancients and the moderns, how they thought the arts were to be distinguished and classified, the principles they proposed for art and literary criticism, and how they made aesthetics a part of philosophy in the eighteenth century. The book explores the controversies that arose among philosophers with different views on these issues, their relation to the philosophy, science, and art, and their legacy for contemporary aesthetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783482139
• Artikelnr.: 44473140

Autorenporträt

J. Colin McQuillan is associate professor of philosophy at St Mary's Unversity, Texas. He is the co-editor, with Joseph Tanke, of the Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics and author of Early Modern Aesthetics (Rowman & Littlefield International).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Ancients & Moderns
A Second Renaissance
Promoting Modernism
Defending Antiquity
Early Modernism
2. The Fine Arts
Five Major Arts
National Traditions Systems of the Arts
Philosophical Systems
3. The Critique of Taste
Varieties of Criticism
Physiology & Psychology
Society & History
Genius & Taste, Critique & Science
4. Aesthetics
A New Science
Changing the Subject
The Philosophy of Art
The Embarrassed Etc.
5. Early Modern Aesthetics Now
Artistic Modernism
The Latest Laocoön
Historicism & Naturalism
Aesthetics Now
Bibliography
Index