The aesthetic as the science of expression and of the linguistic in general
By: Benedetto Croce ; translated by Colin Lyas.
Contributors: Lyas, Colin.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780521352161; 9780521359962
Subjects: Aesthetics; Language and languages -- Philosophy; Philosophy
Notes: Translation of pt. 1 of: Estetica come scienza dell'espressione e linguistica generale.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intuition and expression; title: Intuition and art; title: Art and philosophy; title: Historicism and intellectualism in the aesthetic; title: Critique of analogous errors in history and logic; title: Theoretical activity and practical activity; title: The analogy between the theoretical and the practical; title: The exclusion of other forms of the spirit; title: That expression cannot be divided into modes or levels. The critique of rhetoric; title: Aesthetic feelings and the distinction between the beautiful and the ugly; title: Critique of aesthetic hedonism; title: The aesthetic of "that which attracts liking" and the pseudo-aesthetic concepts; title: Physical beauty and the nature of art; title: Errors arising from the confusion between the physical and the aesthetic; title: The activity of externalisation. The technique and the theory of the arts; title: Taste and the reproduction of art; title: The history of art and literature; title: Conclusion. Identity of linguistics and the aesthetic.