Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-193) and index.
Foreword / Arthur C. Danto -- Introduction: Rereading the History of Aesthetics -- 1. The Interests in Disinterestedness -- 2. Genius and the Copyright -- 3. Aesthetic Autonomy as a Weapon in Cultural Politics: Rereading the Aesthetic Letters -- 4. Aesthetics and the Policing of Reading -- 5. Engendering Art -- 6. The Uses of Kant in England.
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Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented art as we know it today.