Aesthetics From Classical Greece to the Present

✍ Scribed by Monroe C Beardsley

• Book ID: 100638114
• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Edition: First
• Category: Fiction
• City: Tuscaloosa
• ISBN: 0817389768

✦ Synopsis

Preface; General Bibliography; I. First Thoughts; Bibliography; II. Plato; Art and Imitation; Beauty; Morality; Bibliography; III. Aristotle; The Proper Pleasure of Tragedy; Aristotle's Answer to Plato; Bibliography; IV. The Later Classical Philosophers; Hellenism and Roman Classicism; Plotinus; Bibliography; V. The Middle Ages; St. Augustine; St. Thomas Aquinas; The Theory of Interpretation; Bibliography; VI. The Renaissance; Neoplatonism; Theory of Painting; Music and Poetry; Bibliography; VII. The Enlightenment: Cartesian Rationalism; Poetics; Theory of Painting and Music.;"Beardsley's book accomplishes to perfection what the writer intended. It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before. ... The distinguishing feature of his book is a n excitement over everything I aesthetics that has to do with symbols, meanings, language, and modes of interpretation. And this excitement has brought to light facets of the history f the subject never noticed before, or at least, not so clearly."--The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

✦ Subjects

Aesthetics -- History