Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in AestheticsCambridge University Press, 2005 M06 20 - 359 pages "Guyer asserts that the idea of the freedom of the imagination as the key to both artistic creation and aesthetic experience has been a common thread throughout the modern history of aesthetics, although the freedom of the imagination has been understood and connected to other forms of freedom in many different ways."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
The Origins of Modern Aesthetics 17111735 | 3 |
The Standard of Taste and the Most Ardent Desire of Society | 37 |
MOSTLY KANT | 75 |
The Harmony of the Faculties Revisited | 77 |
Beauty and Utility in EighteenthCentury Aesthetics | 110 |
Free and Adherent Beauty A Modest Proposal | 129 |
Kant on the Purity of the Ugly | 141 |
Beauty Freedom and Morality Kants Lectures on Anthropology and the Development of His Aesthetic Theory | 163 |
The Symbols of Freedom in Kants Aesthetics | 222 |
Exemplary Originality Genius Universality and Individuality | 242 |
MOSTLY AFTER KANT | 263 |
Pleasure and Knowledge in Schopenhauers Aesthetics | 265 |
From Jupiters Eagle to Warhols Boxes The Concept of Art from Kant to Danto | 289 |
The Value of a Theory of Beauty Mary Mothersills Beauty Restored | 326 |
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actually adherent beauty aesthetic experience aesthetic ideas aesthetic judgment aesthetic pleasure aesthetic response aesthetic theory Alexander Gerard Alison argues audience Baumgarten Beardsley beautiful object characterization claim cognitive faculties cognitive powers condition constraint contemplation Critique Danto David Hume definition determinate concept displeasure distinction emotions Essays experience of beauty fact Francis Hutcheson free play freedom harmony human Hume Hume's Hutcheson Ibid imagination and understanding Immanuel Kant intended interpretation intuition judgment of beauty judgment of taste Kant Kant's aesthetic Kant's conception Kant's theory Kantian kind manifold means merely metacognitive Metaphysics mind moral nature negative particular Paul Guyer perception philosophy Pillau play of imagination pleasing pleasure in beauty Power of Judgment practical reason precisely precognitive principle produce purely aesthetic purpose representation requires rience satisfaction Schopenhauer Schopenhauer's Schopenhauer's Aesthetics sense sensibility sensory sentiments simply standard of taste sublime suggests symbol teleological theory of beauty things thought tion ugliness unity utility