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  1. Taste and experience in eighteenth-century British aesthetics
    the move toward empiricism
    Author: Townsend, Dabney
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    "Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, expression, the sublime and the picturesque in their own right, distinct from later theories of an exclusively aesthetic kind of... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    "Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, expression, the sublime and the picturesque in their own right, distinct from later theories of an exclusively aesthetic kind of experience. By drawing on a wealth of thinkers, including several marginalised philosophers, Dabney Townsend presents a novel reading of the century to challenge our understanding of art and move towards a unique way of thinking about aesthetics. Speaking of a proto-aesthetic, Townsend surveys theories of taste and beauty arising from the empiricist shift in philosophy. A proto-aesthetic was shaped by the philosophers who followed Locke and accepted that theories of taste and beauty must be products of experience alone. Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Alexander Gerard and Thomas Reid were among the most important advocates, joined by others who re-thought traditional topics. Featuring chapters tracing its philosophical principles, issues raised by the subjectivity of the empiricist approach and the more academic proto-aesthetic formed toward the end of the century, Townsend argues that Lockean empiricism laid the foundations for what we now call aesthetics"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781350298705; 9781350298743
    Subjects: Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Aesthetics, British / 18th century; Empiricism; Esthétique britannique / 18e siècle; Empirisme; Aesthetics, British; Empiricism; 1700-1799
    Scope: 247 Seiten, 24 cm
  2. Taste and experience in eighteenth-century British aesthetics
    the move toward empiricism
    Author: Townsend, Dabney
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, expression, the sublime and the picturesque in their own right, distinct from later theories of an exclusively aesthetic kind of... more

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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2022 A 9089
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2023 C 395
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    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
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    335933 - A
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    73.943
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    "Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, expression, the sublime and the picturesque in their own right, distinct from later theories of an exclusively aesthetic kind of experience. By drawing on a wealth of thinkers, including several marginalised philosophers, Dabney Townsend presents a novel reading of the century to challenge our understanding of art and move towards a unique way of thinking about aesthetics. Speaking of a proto-aesthetic, Townsend surveys theories of taste and beauty arising from the empiricist shift in philosophy. A proto-aesthetic was shaped by the philosophers who followed Locke and accepted that theories of taste and beauty must be products of experience alone. Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Alexander Gerard and Thomas Reid were among the most important advocates, joined by others who re-thought traditional topics. Featuring chapters tracing its philosophical principles, issues raised by the subjectivity of the empiricist approach and the more academic proto-aesthetic formed toward the end of the century, Townsend argues that Lockean empiricism laid the foundations for what we now call aesthetics"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781350298705; 9781350298743
    Subjects: Aesthetics, British; Empiricism
    Scope: 247 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis und Index