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Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic

Benedetto Croce, Douglas Ainslie (Translator)
Print Book, English, 1909
Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1909
xxxi, 403 pages 24 cm
791980
Intuition and expression
Intuition and art
Art and philosophy
Historicism and intellectualism in æsthetic
Analogous errors in history and in logic
Theoretic and practical activity
Analogy between the theoretic and the practical
Exclusion of other spiritual forms
Indivisibility of expression into modes or grades and critique of rhetoric
Æsthetic sentiments and the distinction between the beautiful and the ugly
Critique of æsthetic hedonism
The æsthetic of the sympathetic and pseudo-æsthetic concepts
The so-called physically beautiful in nature and in art
Errors arising from the confusion between physic and æsthetic
The activity of externalization
technique and the theory of the arts
Taste and the reproduction of art
The history of literature and of art
Conclusion : identity of linguistic and æsthetic
Historical summary
Appendix :Translation of the lecture on Pure intuition and the lyrical nature of art, delivered by Benedetto Croce before the International congress of philosophy at Heidelberg
Half-title: Theory of æsthetic
A translation of "Estetica come scienza dell'espressione e linguistica generale", which forms the first volume of Croce's Filosofia come scienza dello spirito
"I give here a close translation of the complete theory of æsthetic, and in the historical summary ... an abbreviation of the historical portion of the original work."--Note, p. vii
Appendix: Translation of the lecture on Pure intuition and the lyrical nature of art, delivered by Benedetto Croce before the International congress of philosophy at Heidelberg: p. 371-403