Essays on the history of aesthetics

Author(s)

• Kivy, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Essays on the history of aesthetics

edited by Peter Kivy

（Library of the history of ideas, v. 5）

University of Rochester Press, 1992

Note

"Articles in this volume first appeared in the Journal of the history of ideas"--Acknowledgements

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In the past twenty-five years interest in aesthetics and the philosophyof art has accelerated to a remarkable degree. This collection ofessays, from the first half-century of the Journal of the Historyof Ideas, reflects this growth in interest; they will be of valueto philosophers and others in related areas for their intrinsic historical interest, and for the stimulation to further speculation that the history of philosophy has always provided to philosophy itself . This collection of essays has been organised into four sections: general overview, antiquity, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The appearance of these seminal essaysin one volume will further encourage both the discipline of aesthetics in general, and its history in particular. The contributors are: PETER KIVY, P.O. KRISTELLER, W. TATARKIEWICZ,MILTON C. NAHM, ANTHONY J. CLOSE, H.S. THAYER, HAROLD SKULSKY, ISAIAHSMITHSON, JAMES J. HILL, JEROME STOLNITZ, DABNEY TOWNSEND, KINERETS. JAFFE, CAROLYN WILKER KORSMEYER, JOHN T. OGDEN, JAMES MANNS, CLARENCED. THORPE, MARTHA WOLFENSTEIN, S. MORRIS ENGEL, KATHLEEN HIGGINS,JEFFREYBARNOUW and BEREL LANG.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Overview: the modern system of the arts - a study in the history of aesthetics, "creativity" and "tradition", P.O. Kristeller
• a note on the modern system of the arts, W. Tatarkiewicz
• the theological background of the theory of the artist as creator, C. Nahm. Part 2 Antiquity: classification of arts in antiquity, W. Tatarkiewicz
• philosophical theories of art and nature in classical antiquity, J. Close
• Plato's quarrel with poetry - Simonides, H.S. Thayer
• Aristotle's "Poetics" Revisited, Harold Skulsky
• the moral view of Aristotle's "Poetics", Isaiah Smithson
• the aesthetic principles of the "Peri Hupsous", James J. Hill. Part 3 The Enlightenment: "beauty" - some stages in the history of an idea, Jerome Stolnitz
• from Shaftesbury to Kant - the development of the concept of aesthetic experience, Dabney Townsend
• the concept of genius - its changing role in 18th-century French aesthetics, Kineret S. Jaffe
• relativism and Hutcheson's aesthetic theory, Carolyn Wilker Korsmeyer
• from spatial to aesthetic distance in the 18th century, John T. Ogden. Part 4 The 19th century - and beyond: child Mozart as an aesthetic symbol, Peter Kivy
• the Scottish influence on French aesthetic thought, James Manns
• Coleridge as aesthetician and critic, Clarence D. Thorpe
• the social background of Tain's philosophy of art, Martha Wolfenstein
• an early Nietzsche fragment on language, Engel
• Nietzsche on music, Kathleen Higgins
• "aesthetic" for Schiller and Peirce - a neglected origin of pragmatism, Jeffrey Barnouw
• intuition in Bloomsbury, Berel Lang.

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Details

• NCID: BA17238703
• ISBN:
  • 1878822063
• LCCN: 92002923
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Rochester, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 410 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BH81
  • DC20 : 111/.85/09
  • NDC8 : 701.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aesthetics -- History
  • LCSH : Arts -- Philosophy -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11941489