Aesthetic: As Science of Expression and General LinguisticTransaction Publishers, 1 gen 1995 - 503 pagine Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring. When the first edition of Aesthetic appeared in 1902, Croce was seen as foremost in reasserting an idealistic philosophy, which, despite its source in continental idealists from Descartes to Hegel, offers a system that attempts to account for the emergence of scientific systems. Croce thus combines scientific and metaphysical thought into a dynamic aesthetic. Croce regards aesthetics not merely as a branch of philosophy, but as a fundamental human activity. It is inseparable from historical, psychological, political, economic, and moral considerations, no less than a unique frame of artistic reference. Aesthetic is composed of two parts: Part One concentrates on aesthetic theory and practice. Among the topics it covers are: intuition and expression, art and philosophy, historicism and intellectualism, and beauty in nature and in art. Part Two is devoted to the history of aesthetics. Croce analyzes such subjects as: aesthetic ideas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Giambattista Vico's contribution to aesthetics, the philosophy of language, and aesthetic psychologism. In his new introduction to a classic translation, John McCormick reviews Croce's impact in the fields of aesthetic theory and historiography. He notes that the republication of this work is an overdue appreciation of a singular effort to resolve the classic question of the philosophy of art: art for its own sake or art as a social enterprise. Both find a place in Croce's system. |
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INTUITION AND | 12 |
ART AND PHILOSOPHY | 22 |
HISTORICISM AND INTELLECTUALISM IN ESTHETIC | 32 |
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EXCLUSION OF OTHER SPIRITUAL FORMS | 61 |
INDIVISIBILITY OF EXPRESSION INTO MODES Or Degrees | 67 |
ĘSTHETIC FEELINGS AND THE DISTINCTION | 74 |
GIAMBATTISTA VICO | 220 |
MINOR ĘSTHETIC DOCTRINES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 235 |
OTHER ĘSTHETIC DOCTRINES OF THE SAME PERIOD | 257 |
IMMANUEL KANT | 272 |
SCHILLER SCHELLING SOLGER HEGEL | 283 |
SCHOPENHAUER AND HERBART | 304 |
FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER | 312 |
HUMBOLDT AND STEINTHAL | 324 |
CRITICISM OF ESTHETIC HEDONISM | 82 |
THE PHYSICALLY BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE AND IN | 94 |
ERRORS ARISING FROM THE CONFUSION BETWEEN PHYSICS | 104 |
THE ACTIVITY OF EXTERNALIZATION TECHNIQUE | 111 |
TASTE AND THE REPRODUCTION OF | 118 |
THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND | 128 |
IDENTITY OF LINGUISTIC AND ĘSTHETIC | 140 |
ĘSTHETIC IDEAS IN GRECOROMAN ANTIQUITY | 155 |
ĘSTHETIC IDEAS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE | 175 |
FERMENTS OF THOUGHT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 189 |
ĘSTHETIC IDEAS IN THE CARTESIAN AND LEIBNITIAN SCHOOLS AND THE ESTHETIC OF BAUMGARTEN | 204 |
MINOR GERMAN ĘSTHETICIANS | 334 |
ĘSTHETIC IN FRANCE ENGLAND AND ITALY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 350 |
FRANCESCO DE SANCTIS | 358 |
ESTHETIC OF THE EPIGONI | 370 |
ĘSTHETIC POSITIVISM AND NATURALISM | 388 |
ĘSTHETIC PSYCHOLOGISM AND OTHER RECENT TENDENCIES | 404 |
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF SOME PARTICULAR DOCTRINES | 420 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX | 475 |
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