Aesthetic: As Science of Expression and General Linguistic

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Benedetto Croce
Routledge, 30 nov 2017 - 510 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 ^Esthetic 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 as the inventor of aesthetic science, the philosophy of language, and aesthetic psychologism.

In his new introduction to a classic translation, John McCormick assesses Croce's influence in aesthetic theory and historiography. He notes that the republication of this work is an overdue appreciation of a singular effort to resolve the classic questions of the philosophy of art, art for its own sake and art as a social enterprise; both find a place in Croce's system.

 

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Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Authors Preface
Theory of Ęsthetic
Intuition and Expression
Intuition and
Art and Philosophy
Historicism and Intellectualism in Ęsthetic
Analogous Errors in the Theory of History and in Logic
Ferments of Thought in the Seventeenth Century
Ęesthetic Ideas in the Cartesian and Leibnitian
Schools And the Ęsthetic of Baumgarten V Giambattista Vico
Immanuel Kant
Schiller Schelling Solger Hegel
Schopenhauer and Herbart
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Humboldt and Steinthal

The Theoretic Activity and the Practical Activity
Analogy Between the Theoretic and the Practical
Exclusion of Other Spiritual Forms
Indivisibility of Expression Into Modes or Degrees and Criticism of Rhetoric
Ęsthetic Feelings and the Distinction Between the Beautiful and the Ugly
Criticism of Ęsthetic Hedonism XII The Ęsthetic of the Sympathetic and Pseudo Ęsthetic Concepts XIII The Physically Beautiful in Nature and in
Errors Arising from the Confusion Between Physics
and Ęsthetic XV The Activity of Externalization Technique and the Theory of the Arts
Taste and the Reproduction of
The History of Literature and
Identity of Linguistic and Ęsthetic
History of Ęsthetic
Ęsthetic Ideas in GręCoRoman Antiquity
Ęesthetic Ideas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Minor German Ęstheticians
Ęsthetic in France England and Italy During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Francesco De Sanctis
Ęsthetic of the Epigoni
Ęsthetic Positivism and Naturalism
Ęsthetic Psychologism and Other Recent Tendencies
Historical Sketches of Some Particular Doctrines
Or the Theory of Ornate Form
History of the Artistic and Literary Kinds
The Theory of the Limits of the Arts
Other Particular Doctrines
Bibliographical Appendix
Index

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