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Modernity, Aesthetics, and the Bounds of Art

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019

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Illuminating the tensions between theory, history, and interpretation in contemporary aesthetics, Peter McCormick traces here the intellectual history of our understanding of the relationship between philosophy and the arts.

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Peter McCormick is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    INTRODUCTION

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  • PART I. REREADING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AESTHETICS
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    Introduction

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    1. Early Modern Aesthetics: An Analytic Reading

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    2. Early Modern Aesthetics: A Hermeneutic Reading

    61
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    3. The Subjectivization of Aesthetics

    82
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    4. Rereading Kant on Aesthetic Judgments

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    5. Balzano, Kant's Aesthetics, and a Realist Tradition

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    INTERLUDE

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  • PART II. REALIST BACKGROUNDS OF MODERN AESTHETICS
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    Introduction

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    6. Dilthey and Aesthetic Experience

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    7. Brentano and Descriptive Intentionalism

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    8. Husserl and Aesthetic Psychologism

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    9. Twardowski and Aesthetic Contents

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    10. Meinong and Aesthetic Feelings

    252
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    11. Ingarden and Aesthetic Structures

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    CONCLUSION

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    Index

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9781501746086
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https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501746086
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ART HISTORY
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