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De jacht op het sublieme : zin, lust en poëzie
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ISBN: 9789023488071 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam : De Bezige Bij,

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Taste and experience in eighteenth-century British aesthetics : the move toward empiricism
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ISBN: 9781350298705 1350298700 1350298719 9781350298743 1350298727 1350298743 9781350298712 9781350298729 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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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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Beauty : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 9780199559527 019955952X 9780199229758 0199229759 Year: 2011 Volume: 262 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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