1st Edition
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics
Introduction
Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, and Mattias Pirholt
Part I: Aesthetic Concepts, Morality, and Society in the British Tradition
1. The Evolution of Aesthetic Concepts 1700–1800
Peter de Bolla
2. Beauty, Nature, and Society in Shaftesbury’s The Moralists
Karl Axelsson
3. Force Makes Right; or, Shaftesbury’s Moral-Aesthetic Dynamics
Neil Saccamano
4. Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Subject for Taste
Maria Semi
5. Adam Smith’s Aesthetic Psychology
Emily Brady and Nicole Hall
Part II: British and German Liaisons
6. Aesthetic Autonomy Is Not the Autonomy of Art
Paul Guyer
7. From Spiritual Taste to Good Taste? Reflections on the Search for Aesthetic Theory’s Pietist Roots
Simon Grote
8. Is there a Middle Way? Mendelssohn on the Faculty of Approbation
Anne Pollok
9. Germaine de Staël and the Politics of Taste
Karen Green
Part III: Science and a New Model of Society Around 1800
10. Goethe’s Exploratory Idealism
Mattias Pirholt
11. Physics as Art: Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s Construction Projects
Jocelyn Holland
12. Hölderlin’s Higher Enlightenment
Camilla Flodin
13. Rethinking Disinterestedness Through the Rise of Political Economy
Natalie Roxburgh
Biography
Karl Axelsson is Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. His most recent book is Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society (2019). Axelsson is also the Swedish translator of the third Earl of Shaftesbury’s The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody (forthcoming).
Camilla Flodin holds a PhD in Aesthetics from Uppsala University and is currently Lecturer and Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She has published extensively on Adorno’s aesthetics and the art-nature relationship in German Romanticism and Idealism. Flodin is also a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Adorno (forthcoming).
Mattias Pirholt is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. His most recent book publications include Grenzerfahrungen: Studien zu Goethes Ästhetik (2018) and Das Abenteuer des Gewöhnlichen: Alltag in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Moderne (co-edited with Thorsten Carstensen, 2018).
