Political aesthetics : addison and shaftesbury on taste, morals, and society /
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 purpo...
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| Język: | angielski |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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| Dostęp online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2193387 |
Spis treści:
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- Rethinking a Provenance
- Reading the History of Aesthetics
- Addison and the Body Politic
- Shaftesbury, Affections, and Society
- Part I: Addison, Taste, and the Moral Body Politic
- 1.1 The Displacement of Political Authority
- 1.2 The Disposition of Taste
- 1.3 Aurelia and Fulvia
- 1.4 Ethico-Emotive Pleasures
- 1.5 Faith and Political Enthusiasm
- 1.6 Britain and the New Classicism
- 1.7 The Perils of the Foreign
- Part II: Moved by Affections: Shaftesbury on Beauty and Society
- 2.1 Natural Affections
- 2.2 Self-Knowledge and Disinterestedness
- 2.3 A Disinterested (Aesthetic) Perception
- 2.4 The Work of Art as a Whole
- 2.5 Taste for Society
- Coda: Reading Addison and Shaftesbury in the Future
- Bibliography
- Index