{"product_id":"imitation-and-society-tom-huhn-9780271029122","title":"Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis was taken to apply only in the relation of art to nature, it was judged to be too limited when the focus of aesthetics changed to questions about the constitution of individual subjects in regard to taste. Tom Huhn argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgment and taste. Mimesis also thereby became enmeshed in the ideas of sociality contained, often only implicitly, within the new accounts of aesthetic judgment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book proceeds by reading three of the foundational treatises in aesthetics--Burke's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, Hogarth's \u003ci\u003eAnalysis of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, and Kant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e--with an eye for discerning where arguments and analyses betray mimetic structures. Huhn attempts to explicate these books anew by arguing that they are pervaded by a mimetic dynamic. Overall, he seeks to provoke a reconsideration of eighteenth-century aesthetics that centers on its continuity with traditional notions of mimesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Huhn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271029129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271029122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.67d","brand":"Tom Huhn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965716611327,"sku":"9780271029122","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4af00df-b147-45fe-b1a0-8a95d820cc11.jpg?v=1767284319","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imitation-and-society-tom-huhn-9780271029122","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}