Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. I. Editor’s Introduction
5. Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and Lucian 3
6. II “Of the Standard of Taste”
7. Of the Standard of Taste 25
8. III. Of Taste and Standards
9. Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle 43
10. Hume and the Standard of Taste 53
11. Taste and Order 67
12. General Rules and Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” 77
13. Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste 97
14. IV. Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic
15. Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste 117
16. The Problem of a Standard of Taste 133
17. Taste and Civil Society 177
18. Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Science and Hume’s Standard of Taste 213
19. V. Comparisons, Art, Anatomies
20. The Comparison as the Standardization of Aesthetic Norms 249
21. Plato and Hume’s Philosophy of Art 263
22. “Cloathing the Parts again”: The Ghost of the Treatise in the Standard of Taste 281
23. Notes on Contributors 301
24. Research and Citation Bibliography 305
25. Subject Index 323
26. Name Index 329