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A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century by Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because of emotional impact - precisely what Plato criticized - and because it is a pleasurable free play of many or all of our mental powers. This set tells how these ideas have been synthesized or separated by aestheticians of modern times. This second volume tells how over the course of the century philosophers in Germany, Britain, and eventually the United States struggled to return to a broader approach to the value of aesthetic experience by finding room for the emotional and playful aspects of art.

About Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

Paul Guyer is the inaugural Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University, Rode Island. He is author of nine books, and editor of six collections on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, including four focusing on Kant's aesthetics. He has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and prizes, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize. A History of Modern Aesthetics was facilitated by a Laurance Rockefeller Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Professor Guyer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been president of both the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics.

Part I. German Aesthetics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: 1. Early Romanticism and idealism; 2. In the shadow of Schelling; 3. The high tide of idealism; 4. In the wake of Hegel; Part II. (Mostly) British Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 5. Ruskin; 6. Aestheticism; 7. Bosanquet and Tolstoy; Part III. German Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 8. In the shadow of Schopenhauer; 9. Neo-Kantian aesthetics; 10. Psychological aesthetics: play and empathy.

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A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century by Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

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Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

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2018-09-06

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A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century by Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

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A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century Summary

A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century by Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

About Paul Guyer (Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph, Brown University, Rhode Island)

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