The seventh sense : Francis Hutcheson and eighteenth-century British aesthetics

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The seventh sense : Francis Hutcheson and eighteenth-century British aesthetics

Peter Kivy

Clarendon, 2003

2nd ed., rev. and enl

  • : pbk

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"First published by Burt Franklin & Co., Inc., 1976" --T. p. verso

Bibliography: p. 384-390

Includes index

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Reissued with substantial new material, this is a study of the aesthetic theory of the great 18th-century philosopher Frances Hutcheson and its huge influence on British aesthetics. This edition is brought up to date with the addition of eight essays that Kivy has written on the subject since 1976.

Table of Contents

  • I. JUST BEFORE HUTCHESON
  • II. The Sense of 'Sense'
  • III. The Sense of 'Beauty'
  • IV. The Sense of 'Beautiful'
  • V. Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
  • VI. God and Aesthetics
  • VII. RATIONALIST AESTHETICS IN THE AGE OF HUTCHESON
  • VIII. Hutcheson and Hume
  • IX. Common Sense and the Sense of Beauty
  • X. The Rise of Association
  • XI. The Triumph of Association
  • XII. End of an Era
  • XIII. A LOGIC OF TASTE
  • XIV. Hutcheson's Idea of Beauty
  • XV. The 'Sense' of Beauty
  • XVI. Hume's Neighbour's Wife
  • XVII. Hume's 'Sentiments'
  • XVIII. The Logic of Taste
  • XIX. The Expression Theory of Art
  • XX. Seeing is Believing

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