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Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Dabney Townsend
其他書名
The Move toward Empiricism
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022-06-02
主題Philosophy / Movements / EmpiricismPhilosophy / AestheticsArt / History / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryPhilosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
ISBN13502987199781350298712
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Pj9nEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, expression, the sublime and the picturesque in their own right, distinct from later theories of an exclusively aesthetic kind of experience. By drawing on a wealth of thinkers, including several marginalised philosophers, Dabney Townsend presents a novel reading of the century to challenge our understanding of art and move towards a unique way of thinking about aesthetics.

Speaking of a proto-aesthetic, Townsend surveys theories of taste and beauty arising from the empiricist shift in philosophy. A proto-aesthetic was shaped by the philosophers who followed Locke and accepted that theories of taste and beauty must be products of experience alone. Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Alexander Gerard and Thomas Reid were among the most important advocates, joined by others who re-thought traditional topics.

Featuring chapters tracing its philosophical principles, issues raised by the subjectivity of the empiricist approach and the more academic proto-aesthetic formed toward the end of the century, Townsend argues that Lockean empiricism laid the foundations for what we now call aesthetics.