Aesthetics : sources in the nineteenth century
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Aesthetics : sources in the nineteenth century
Thoemmes Press, 1999
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Aesthetics : sources in the 19th century
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Aesthetics, established as an independent philosophical discipline in the 18th century, was often overlooked in the 19th until such later writers as Bosanquet, Santyana, Collingwood and Wittgenstein helped bring it back into the philosophical mainstream. However, these scarce and important texts will help re-open the doors for fresh discussion, debate and understanding of this neglected period. The 19th century saw a tremendous upsurge in periodical and literary publishing, the rise and influence of Romanticism, the invention of photography, the beginnings of mass tourism and its consequential enthusiasms for domestic and foreign landscape, painting, architecture, music and the plastic arts. All these developments had a profound effect on aesthetic thinking. These eight key texts demonstrate the fertility of aesthetic thought that occurred in these times and help brigde the gap in aesthetics understanding between Burke's "Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas the Sublime and the Beautiful" (1757) and the modern period. The collection features famous and lesser-known works of the time, but all of them difficult to find, even in major libraries.
Covering themes of beauty, imagination, pleasure, sublimity, taste and feeling, the set helps illustrate and contextualize the evolution of modern literary, musical and artistic criticism. Important authors such as Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Richard Payne Knight and Edmund Gurney can be found here, helping present a full overview of Anglo-American aesthetics in the 19th century. The set should be of interest to any studying philosophy, art, music, and literary theory in the 19th century and complements the eight-volume collection, "Aesthetics: Sources in the Eigtheenth Century".
Table of Contents
- Vol 1: an analytical inquiry into the principles of taste (1805), Richard Payne Knight. Vol 2: aesthetics, or the analogy of the sensible sciences indicated (1820), George Field
- a critical dissertation on the nature and principles of taste (1822), Martin MacDermot. Vol 3: aesthetics, or the science of beauty (1862), John Bascom. Vols 4&5: the gay science (1866), Eneas Sweetland Dallas. Vol 6: the beautiful in nature and art (1866), Sarah Stickney (afterwards Ellis). Vol 7: the power of sound (1880), Edmund Gurney. Vol 8: studies in poetry and philosophy (1886), John Campball Shairp.
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