عنوان

Francis Hutcheson:

(Number (ISBN

9401024545

(Number (ISBN

9789401024549

Number

b594403

Title Proper

Francis Hutcheson:

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design

First Statement of Responsibility

by Peter Kivy.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1973

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(v, 123 pages)

Series Title

Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, 9.

Text of Note

Note on the Text --; Editor's Introduction --; Preface to the Two Inquiries --; Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design --; Appendix: Hutcheson on Laughter --; Editor's Introduction.

Text of Note

THE SENSE OF BEAUTY: A FIRST APPROXIMATION It is generally acknowledged that during the first half of the eighteenth century a profound change was wrought in the theory of art and natural beauty. To this period we owe the establishment of the modem system of the arts. 1 In England, the notion of a separate and autonomous disci pline devoted solely to art and to beauty came into being through the concept of "aesthetic disinterestedness." 2 In addition, emphasis in the theory of art shifted from object to subject - from the work of art to the perceiver and critic. Focal point for this change was the sense of beauty which, in concert with the moral sense of the British school, represented a dominant force in Enlightenment value theory. It is Francis Hutcheson who, more than anyone else, can be thought of as the founder and principal spokesman of this philosophical coterie. If the aesthetic sense was instrumental in the transfer of interest, in the philosophy of art, from object to perceiver, the aesthetic and moral senses together were no less important in a parallel transference of value judgment from the rational to the sensate.

Philosophy & Religion.

Philosophy (General)

Philosophy.

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Book number

by Peter Kivy.

Peter Kivy

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[Book]

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