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Author Costelloe, Timothy M.

Title The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein / Timothy M. Costelloe
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 350 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: a brief history of 'aesthetics' -- Part I. The age of taste. 1. Internal sense theorists ; 2. Imagination theorists ; 3. Associationist theorists -- Part II. The age of Romanticism. 4. The picturesque ; 5. Wordsworth and the early Romantics ; 6. Victorian criticism -- Part III. The age of analysis. 7. Theories of expression ; 8. Wittgenstein and afterwards
Summary "This is the first single volume to offer a comprehensive and systematic account of British and American aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
"The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain and the United States from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists, and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336) and index
Notes English
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Subject Aesthetics, British -- History
Aesthetics, American -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, American
Aesthetics, British
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
USA
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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