Eighteenth-century aesthetics and the reconstruction of art
By: edited by Paul Mattick, Jr.
Contributors: Mattick, Paul, 1944-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521066839; 9780521431064
Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century; Art -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Disinterestedness and denial of the particular: Locke, Adam Smith, and the subject of aesthetics / Elizabeth A. Bohls; title: The beginnings of "aesthetics" and the Leibnizian conception of sensation / Jeffrey Barnouw; title: Of the scandal of taste: social privilege as nature in the aesthetic theories of Hume and Kant / Richard Shusterman; title: Why did Kant call taste a "common sense"? / David Summers; title: Art and money / Paul Mattick, Jr.; title: "Art" as a weapon in cultural politics: rereading Schiller's Aesthetic letters / Martha Woodmansee; title: Thinking about genius in the eighteenth century / John Hope Mason; title: Creation, aesthetics, market: origins of the modern concept of art / Annie Becq.