Essays in Aesthetics by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Synopsis 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 most recent essays on the epochal contribution of Immauel Kant, and sets Kant's.

Aesthetics A Brief History of Aesthetics is the theoretical study of the arts and related types of behavior and experience. It is traditionally regarded as a branch of philosophy, concerned with the understanding of beauty and its manifestations in art and nature.

Introduction A Brief History of “Aesthetics” Today the term aesthetics refers to an identifiable subdiscipline of philosophy concerned with the nature and expression of beauty and the fine arts. The disci-pline covers a broad spectrum of issues, problems, and approaches, but students.

The focus of this entry is on Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, which forms part of his organic philosophical system, but which can be appreciated and assessed to some extent on its own terms (for ways in which his aesthetic insights may be detached from his metaphysics see Shapshay, 2012b).

Benedetto Croce on aesthetics - Benedetto Croce on aesthetics - History of aesthetics: From the character of aesthetics as a philosophical science (see above) it follows that its history cannot be separated from that of philosophy at large, from which aesthetics receives light and guidance, and gives back light and guidance in its turn. The so-called subjectivist tendency which modern.

So many beauties in this appealing world, The true beauty lies in the beholder's eyes, There is beauty in the child's innocence and in mother's love, There is beauty in a friend's affection and in a tender heart, There is beauty in a pretty smile and caring eyes, There is.

The concept of the aesthetic descends from the concept of taste. Why the concept of taste commanded so much philosophical attention during the 18th century is a complicated matter, but this much is clear: the eighteenth-century theory of taste emerged, in part, as a corrective to the rise of rationalism, particularly as applied to beauty, and.

Now we reach a historical stage where art and aesthetics are seeking for a reconciliation. The essays in this book show this new tendency in different ways. About the Editor Peng Feng is professor of aesthetics and art criticism at Peking University. He is also a playwright, freelance art critic and curator of exhibitions at international level.

This volume addresses the impact of human movement on the aesthetic practices that make up the fabric of culture. The essays explore the ways in which cultural activities—ranging from the habitual gestures of the body to the production of specific artworks—register the impact of migration, from the forced transportation of slaves to the New World and of Jews to the death camps to the.

I have read two works which deal with the art. The first one is Dialectics of Seeing by Hal Foster, and the second one is Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time by Rosalind Krauss.I find these two works very interesting, well-written, and thorough. The aim of the first work is to understand how three fields of art, such as Art History, Aesthetics, and Visual Studies interact with each other.