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. |
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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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| Title | Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics |
| Authors | Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph Paul Guyer |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0521844908, 9780521844901 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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