The British Aesthetic Tradition : From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein

This Is The First Single Volume To Offer A Comprehensive And Systematic Account Of British And American Aesthetics From The Early Eighteenth Century To The Late Twentieth Century-- The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury To Wittgenstein Is The First Single Volume To Offer Readers A Comprehensive And Systematic History Of Aesthetics In Britain And The United States From Its Inception In The Early Eighteenth Century To Major Developments In The Late Twentieth Century. The Book Consists Of An Introduction And Eight Chapters, And Is Divided Into Three Parts. The First Part, The Age Of Taste, Covers The Eighteenth-century Approaches Of Internal Sense Theorists, Imagination Theorists, And Associationists. The Second, The Age Of Romanticism, Takes Readers From Debates Over The Picturesque Through British Romanticism To Late Victorian Criticism. The Third, The Age Of Analysis, Covers Early Twentieth-century Theories Of Formalism And Expressionism To Conclude With Wittgenstein And A Number Of Views Inspired By His Thought-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Introduction: A Brief History Of 'aesthetics'; Part I. The Age Of Taste: 1. Internal Sense Theorists; 2. Imagination Theorists; 3. Associationist Theorists; Part Ii. The Age Of Romanticism: 4. The Picturesque; 5. Wordsworth And The Early Romantics; 6. Victorian Criticism; Part Iii. The Age Of Analysis: 7. Theories Of Expression; 8. Wittgenstein And Afterwards. Timothy M. Costelloe. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 325-336) And Index. Dedication 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Illustrations 7 Acknowledgments 8 Preface 10 Introduction: A Brief History of “Aesthetics” 12 Design of the Book 16 Part I. The Age of Taste 20 1 Internal Sense Theorists 22 Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury 22 Shaftesbury’s Sublime 28 Francis Hutcheson 32 Uniformity Amidst Variety 35 The Standard of Taste 39 Thomas Reid 40 2 Imagination Theorists 48 Joseph Addison 48 The Great, Uncommon, and Beautiful 52 Secondary Pleasures and Poetry 55 The Paradox of Tragedy 57 Taste 58 David Hume 60 Hume’s Aesthetics 61 The Search for a Standard 63 The Paradox of Tragedy 66 Hume’s “Just Representation” 69 William Hogarth 74 Edmund Burke 79 The Sublime and the Beautiful 82 The Standard of Taste 87 The Paradox of Tragedy 89 Poetic Representation 91 Sir Joshua Reynolds 93 The Standard of Taste and Genius 103 3 Association Theorists 105 Henry Home, Lord Kames 106 Pleasure and Criticism 107 Beauty 109 Grandeur and Sublimity 109 The Standard of Taste and Paradox of Tragedy 111 Alexander Gerard 115 Judgment and Imagination 116 The Senses of Taste and Operations of the Imagination 118 “Of the Standard of Taste” 120 Genius 124 Archibald Alison 128 Emotions of Taste 130 The Material World 132 The Standard of Taste and Progress in the Arts 135 Dugald Stewart 137 “Beauty,” “Sublimity,” and the Transitivity of Sense 138 “Beauty,” “Sublimity,” and Principles of Association 140 Part II. The Age of Romanticism 144 4 The Picturesque 146 William Gilpin 150 Uvedale Price 157 Richard Payne Knight 164 Humphry Repton 170 5 Wordsworth and the Early Romantics 178 William Wordsworth 179 Wordsworth and the Picturesque 180 The “Guide” and the Natural Picturesque 186 Wordsworth’s Sublime 190 The Preface to Lyrical Ballads 195 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 201 Poems and Poetry 203 Imagination and Fancy 205 Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats 210 6 Victorian Criticism 219 William Hazlitt 220 The Principles of Human Action 223 “On Poetry in General” 225 John Stuart Mill 231 John Ruskin 235 Beauty and Ruskin’s Theophantic Naturalism 239 The Sublime 244 Ruskin’s Moral Picturesque 246 Walter Pater 252 Part III. The Age of Analysis 260 7 Theories of Expression 262 Theories of Expression 263 George Santayana 266 Roger Fry and Clive Bell 271 Art and “Imaginative Life” 273 “Emotional Elements of Design” 277 Bell and “Significant Form” 278 R. G. Collingwood 284 “Art Falsely Called” 287 “Art Proper” 291 The “Cult of ‘Genius’” 292 John Dewey 294 The Museum Conception of Art and the Task of Aesthetics 296 Art as Experience 298 8 Wittgenstein and After 301 Ludwig Wittgenstein 302 The “Early” Aesthetics 304 The “Later” Aesthetics 306 “Wittgensteinian Criticism” 310 After Wittgenstein 312 Frank Sibley and a “Feeling” for the Rules 314 Kendall Walton and “Seeing As” 316 “Family Resemblances” and Defining the Arts 321 Bibliography 336 Index 348 "The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain and the United States from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists, and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought"-- Provided by publisher "The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain and the United States from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists, and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought"-- Résumé de l'éditeur The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought. "This is the first single volume to offer a comprehensive and systematic account of British and American aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century"-- Résumé de l'éditeur Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.