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Values of beauty : historical essays in aesthetics /
Values of Beauty discusses major ideas and figures in the history of aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The core of the book features Paul Guyer's essays on the epochal contribution of Immauel Kant, and sets Kant's work in the conte...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024332.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2004024332-d.html |
Table of Contents:
- The origins of modern aesthetics: 1711-1735
- The standard of taste and the 'most ardent desire of society'
- The harmony of the faculties revisited
- Beauty and utility in eighteenth-century aesthetics
- Free and adherent beauty: a modest proposal
- Kant on the purity of the ugly
- Beauty, freedom, and morality: Kant's lectures on anthropology and the development of his aesthetic theory
- The ethical value of the aesthetic: Kant, Alison, and Santayana
- The symbols of freedom in Kant's aesthetics
- Exemplary originality: genius, universality, and individuality
- Pleasure and knowledge in Schopenhauer's aesthetics
- From Jupiter's eagle to Warhol's boxes: the concept of art from Kant to Danto
- The value of a theory of beauty: Mary Mothersill's beauty restored.