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Book SynopsisA History of Modern Aesthetics focuses on the ideas that aesthetic experience is important because it is a form of cognition, because of its emotional impact, and because of the sheer pleasure of the free play of our mental powers triggered by works of art and nature. The work focuses on both the best-known and lesser-known aestheticians of modern times.
Table of ContentsPart I. German Aesthetics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: 1. Early Romanticism and idealism; 2. In the shadow of Schelling; 3. The high tide of idealism; 4. In the wake of Hegel; Part II. (Mostly) British Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 5. Ruskin; 6. Aestheticism; 7. Bosanquet and Tolstoy; Part III. German Aesthetics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 8. In the shadow of Schopenhauer; 9. Neo-Kantian aesthetics; 10. Psychological aesthetics: play and empathy.
