Essays on the History of Aesthetics

Abstract

Part 1 Overview: the modern system of the arts - a study in the history of aesthetics, creativity and tradition, P.O. Kristeller a note on the modern system of the arts, W. Tatarkiewicz the theological background of the theory of the artist as creator, C. Nahm. Part 2 Antiquity: classification of arts in antiquity, W. Tatarkiewicz philosophical theories of art and nature in classical antiquity, J. Close Plato's quarrel with poetry - Simonides, H.S. Thayer Aristotle's Poetics Revisited, Harold Skulsky the moral view of Aristotle's Poetics, Isaiah Smithson the principles of the Peri Hupsous, James J. Hill. Part 3 The Enlightenment: beauty - some stages in the history of an idea, Jerome Stolnitz from Shaftesbury to Kant - the development of the concept of experience, Dabney Townsend the concept of genius - its changing role in 18th-century French aesthetics, Kineret S. Jaffe relativism and Hutcheson's theory, Carolyn Wilker Korsmeyer from spatial to distance in the 18th century, John T. Ogden. Part 4 The 19th century - and beyond: child Mozart as an symbol, Peter Kivy the Scottish influence on French thought, James Manns Coleridge as aesthetician and critic, Clarence D. Thorpe the social background of Tain's philosophy of art, Martha Wolfenstein an early Nietzsche fragment on language, Engel Nietzsche on music, Kathleen Higgins aesthetic for Schiller and Peirce - a neglected origin of pragmatism, Jeffrey Barnouw intuition in Bloomsbury, Berel Lang.