TY  - GEN
T1  - Political aesthetics : addison and shaftesbury on taste, morals, and society
A1  - Axelsson, Karl, 1976-
LA  - English
PP  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1107989715
AB  - Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, this book challenges conventional views of how art's significance developed in society. The 18th century is often said to have involved a radical transformation in the concept of art: from the understanding that it has a practical purpose to the modern belief that it is intrinsically valuable. By exploring the ground between these notions of art's function, Karl Axelsson reveals how scholars of culture made taste, morals and a politically stable society integral to their claims about the experience of nature and art. Focusing on writings by two of the most prolific men of letters in the 18th century, Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), Axelsson contests the conviction that modern aesthetic autonomy reoriented the criticism and philosophy originally prompted by these two key figures in the history of aesthetics. By re-examining the political relevance of Addison and Shaftesbury's theories of taste, Axelsson shows that first and foremost they sought to fortify a natural link between aesthetic experience and modern political society.
CN  - BH301.P64
SN  - 9781350077775
SN  - 1350077771
SN  - 9781350077768
SN  - 1350077763
SN  - 135007778X
SN  - 9781350077782
SN  - 9781350077751
SN  - 1350077755
KW  - Addison, Joseph, : 1672-1719.
KW  - Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, : Earl of, : 1671-1713.
KW  - Addison, Joseph, : 1672-1719
KW  - Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, : Earl of, : 1671-1713
KW  - Aesthetics : Political aspects.
KW  - Social & political philosophy.
KW  - Ethics & moral philosophy.
KW  - Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900.
KW  - History of art : art & design styles.
KW  - Philosophy: aesthetics.
KW  - Philosophy : Aesthetics.
KW  - Philosophy : Political.
KW  - Philosophy : Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
KW  - Art : History : Romanticism.
KW  - Aesthetics : Political aspects
ER  -