Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics: The Move Toward Empiricism by Townsend, Dabney

Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics: The Move toward Empiricism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350298705)

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Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics: The Move Toward Empiricism by Townsend, Dabney

Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics: The Move toward Empiricism

$120.00
Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics: The Move Toward Empiricism by Townsend, Dabney

Taste and Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics: The Move toward Empiricism

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aestheticsacknowledges 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.

Author: Dabney Townsend
ISBN-10: 1350298700
ISBN-13: 9781350298705
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Dabney Townsend
By Dabney Townsend
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Dabney Townsend is retired as Executive Director of the American Society for Aesthetics and Professor of Philosophy at Georgia Southern University, USA. He is Editor of Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics and Classical Readings in Aesthetics.

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