1st Edition
Aesthetic As Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Edited By Benedetto Croce
Copyright 1995
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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... Read more
I: Theory of Æsthetic; I: Intuition and Expression; II: Intuition and Art; III: Art and Philosophy; IV: Historicism and Intellectualism in Æsthetic; V: Analogous Errors in the Theory of History and in Logic; VI: The Theoretic Activity and the Practical Activity; VII: Analogy Between the Theoretic and the Practical; VIII: Exclusion of Other Spiritual Forms; IX: Indivisibility of Expression Into Modes or Degrees and Criticism of Rhetoric; X: Æsthetic Feelings and the Distinction Between the Beautiful and the Ugly; XI: Criticism of Æsthetic Hedonism; XII: The Æsthetic of the Sympathetic and Pseudo-Æsthetic Concepts; XIII: The “Physically Beautiful” in Nature and in Art; XIV: Errors Arising from the Confusion Between Physics and Æsthetic; XV: The Activity of Externalization. Technique and the Theory of the Arts; XVI: Taste and the Reproduction of Art; XVII: The History of Literature and Art; XVIII: Conclusion: Identity of Linguistic and Æsthetic; II: History of Æsthetic; I: Æsthetic Ideas in GræCo-Roman Antiquity; II: Æesthetic Ideas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; III: Ferments of Thought in the Seventeenth Century; IV: Æesthetic Ideas in the Cartesian and Leibnitian Schools, And the “Æsthetic” of Baumgarten; V: Giambattista Vico; VI: Minor Æsthetic Doctrines of the Eighteenth Century; VII: Other Æsthetic Doctrines of the Same Period; VIII: Immanuel Kant; IX: The Æsthetic of Idealism: Schiller, Schelling, Solger, Hegel; X: Schopenhauer and Herbart; XI: Friedrich Schleiermacher; XII: The Philosophy of Language: Humboldt and Steinthal; XIII: Minor German Æstheticians; XIV: Æsthetic in France, England and Italy During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; XV: Francesco De Sanctis; XVI: Æsthetic of the Epigoni; XVII: Æsthetic Positivism and Naturalism; XVIII: Æsthetic Psychologism and Other Recent Tendencies; XIX: Historical Sketches of Some Particular Doctrines; I: Rhetoric: Or the Theory of Ornate Form; II: History of the Artistic and Literary Kinds; III: The Theory of the Limits of the Arts; IV: Other Particular Doctrines; Bibliographical Appendix
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Benedetto Croce
