Hume's Aesthetic Theory

Hume's Aesthetic Theory
Author: Dabney Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134568029

Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Hume's general philosophy and provides fresh insights into the history of aesthetics.

Imagination in Hume's Philosophy

Imagination in Hume's Philosophy
Author: Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474436412

Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science.

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste'

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste'
Author: Babette Babich
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2019-05-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 311058557X

This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history of science. This much needed volume on David Hume will enrich scholars across all levels of university study and research.

The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory

The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory
Author: Simon Grote
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107110920

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art

Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art
Author: Paul Mattick, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1993-05-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521431064

This collection of essays explores 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 developed under the name of 'aesthetics' in the eighteenth century have traditionally been understood as contributions to a field of study in existence 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, which can be stated in definitions of art and beauty. 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 in an effort both to understand and to shape this new social practice. These essays 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.

Knowledge, Reason, and Taste

Knowledge, Reason, and Taste
Author: Paul Guyer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013-12-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0691151172

Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphysics--can fruitfully be read as an engagement with Hume. In this book, the first to describe and assess Hume's influence throughout Kant's philosophy, Guyer shows where Kant agrees or disagrees with Hume, and where Kant does or doesn't appear to resolve Hume's doubts. In doing so, Guyer examines the progress both Kant and Hume made on enduring questions about causes, objects, selves, taste, moral principles and motivations, and purpose and design in nature. Finally, Guyer looks at questions Kant and Hume left open to their successors.

The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic

The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic
Author: Monique Roelofs
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472522249

Aesthetic desire and distaste prime everyday life in surprising ways. The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic casts much-needed light on the complex mix of meanings our aesthetic activities weave into cultural existence. Anchoring aesthetic experience in our relationships with persons, places, and things, Monique Roelofs explores aesthetic life as a multimodal, socially embedded, corporeal endeavor. Highlighting notions of relationality, address, and promising, this compelling study shows these concepts at work in visions of beauty, ugliness, detail, nation, ignorance, and cultural boundary. Unexpected aesthetic pleasures and pains crop up in sites where passion, perception, rationality, and imagination go together but also are in conflict. Bonds between aesthetics and politics are forged and reforged. Cross-disciplinary in outlook, and engaging the work of theorists and artists ranging from David Hume to Theodor W. Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Clarice Lispector, and Barbara Johnson, The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic lays open the interpretive web that gives aesthetic agency its vast reach.

Hume's Aesthetic Theory

Hume's Aesthetic Theory
Author: Dabney Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134568010

Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Hume's general philosophy and provides fresh insights into the history of aesthetics.