Aesthetic

As Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Herausgeber: Croce, Benedetto

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Produktbeschreibung

Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring. When the first edition of ^Esthetic appeared in 1902, Croce was seen as foremost in reasserting an idealistic philosophy, which despite its source in continental idealists from Descartes to Hegel, offers a system that attempts to account for the emergence of scientific systems. Croce thus combines scientific and metaphysical thought into a dynamic aesthetic. Croce regards aesthetics not merely as a branch of philosophy, but as a fundamental human activity. It is inseparable from historical, psychological, political, economic, and moral considerations, no less than a unique frame of artistic reference. Aesthetic is composed of two parts: Part One concentrates on aesthetic theory and practice. Among the topics it covers are: intuition and expression, art and philosophy, historicism and intellectualism, and beauty in nature and in art. Part Two is devoted to the history of aesthetics. Croce analyzes such subjects as: aesthetic ideas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Giambattista Vico as the inventor of aesthetic science, the philosophy of language, and aesthetic psychologism. In his new introduction to a classic translation, John McCormick assesses Croce's influence in aesthetic theory and historiography. He notes that the republication of this work is an overdue appreciation of a singular effort to resolve the classic questions of the philosophy of art, art for its own sake and art as a social enterprise; both find a place in Croce's system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 526
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9781560008187
• ISBN-10: 1560008180
• Artikelnr.: 21320543

Autorenporträt

Benedetto Croce

Inhaltsangabe

I: Theory of Æsthetic
I: Intuition and Expression
II: Intuition and Art
III: Art and Philosophy
IV: Historicism and Intellectualism in Æsthetic
V: Analogous Errors in the Theory of History and in Logic
VI: The Theoretic Activity and the Practical Activity
VII: Analogy Between the Theoretic and the Practical
VIII: Exclusion of Other Spiritual Forms
IX: Indivisibility of Expression Into Modes or Degrees and Criticism of Rhetoric
X: Æsthetic Feelings and the Distinction Between the Beautiful and the Ugly
XI: Criticism of Æsthetic Hedonism
XII: The Æsthetic of the Sympathetic and Pseudo-Æsthetic Concepts
XIII: The "Physically Beautiful" in Nature and in Art
XIV: Errors Arising from the Confusion Between Physics and Æsthetic
XV: The Activity of Externalization. Technique and the Theory of the Arts
XVI: Taste and the Reproduction of Art
XVII: The History of Literature and Art
XVIII: Conclusion: Identity of Linguistic and Æsthetic
II: History of Æsthetic
I: Æsthetic Ideas in GræCo-Roman Antiquity
II: Æesthetic Ideas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
III: Ferments of Thought in the Seventeenth Century
IV: Æesthetic Ideas in the Cartesian and Leibnitian Schools, And the "Æsthetic" of Baumgarten
V: Giambattista Vico
VI: Minor Æsthetic Doctrines of the Eighteenth Century
VII: Other Æsthetic Doctrines of the Same Period
VIII: Immanuel Kant
IX: The Æsthetic of Idealism: Schiller, Schelling, Solger, Hegel
X: Schopenhauer and Herbart
XI: Friedrich Schleiermacher
XII: The Philosophy of Language: Humboldt and Steinthal
XIII: Minor German Æstheticians
XIV: Æsthetic in France, England and Italy During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
XV: Francesco De Sanctis
XVI: Æsthetic of the Epigoni
XVII: Æsthetic Positivism and Naturalism
XVIII: Æsthetic Psychologism and Other Recent Tendencies
XIX: Historical Sketches of Some Particular Doctrines
I: Rhetoric: Or the Theory of Ornate Form
II: History of the Artistic and Literary Kinds
III: The Theory of the Limits of the Arts
IV: Other Particular Doctrines
Bibliographical Appendix