Title & Author:

Eighteenth-century aesthetics and the reconstruction of art / edited by Paul Mattick, Jr.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Description:

vii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Disinterestedness and denial of the particular : Locke, Adam Smith, and the subject of aesthetics / Elizabeth A. Bohls -- The beginnings of "aesthetic" and the Leibnizian conception of sensation / Jeffrey Barnouw -- Of the scandal of taste : social privilege as nature in the aesthetic theories of Hyme and Kant / Richard Shusterman -- Why did Kant call taste a "common sense"? / David Summers -- Art and money / Paul Mattick, Jr. --"Art" as a weapon in cultural politics : rereading Schiller's Aesthetic letters / Martha Woodmansee -- Thinking about genius in the eighteenth century / John Hope Mason -- Creation, asethetics, market : origins of the modern concept of art / Annie Becq.

Summary:

Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art is a collection of essays exploring the rise of aesthetics as a response to, and as a part of, the reshaping of the arts in modern society. The theories of art that were developed under the name of "aesthetics" in the later eighteenth century have traditionally been understood as contributions to a field of study in existence at least since the time of Plato. If art is a practice to be found in all human societies, then the philosophy of art is the search for universal features of that practice, statable in definitions of art and beauty. Despite appearances to the contrary, however, art as we know it - the system of "fine arts"--Is largely peculiar to modern society. Aesthetics, far from being a perennial discipline, emerged when it did in an effort both to understand and to shape this new social practice. The essays included in this volume share the conviction that aesthetic ideas can be fully understood when seen not only in relation to intellectual and social contexts but as themselves constructed in history. This is relevant to the concept of art itself, which acquired its current meaning in relation to actual changes in the social uses made of painting, writing, and the other media. Ranging widely in method, with allegiance to no particular theoretical outlook, these studies are both grounded in the history of philosophy and drawn from recent developments in literary theory, art history, and social history, and seek to clarify philosophical issues by taking their historical content into account.

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ISBN:

0521431069
9780521431064
9780521066839
0521066832

Subject:

Aesthetics, Modern 18th century.
Art Philosophy.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Esthétique 18e siècle.
Art Philosophie.
Ästhetik
Aufsatzsammlung
Esthetica.
Kunst.
Arts Philosophy.
Aesthetics

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Mattick, Paul, 1944-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 83235
Call No.: ID N66.E35; ID:95-B3167
Status: Available