Hume's Aesthetic Theory: Taste and Sentiment

ISBN-13: 9780415233965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 268 str.

Dabney Townsend

Opis

Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume.
This is a major contribution to our understanding of Hume's general philosophy and provides fresh insights into the history of aesthetics.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 SHAFTESBURY AND HUME; Chapter 2 TASTE; Chapter 3 HUME'S APPEAL TO SENTIMENT; Chapter 4 THE AESTHETIC/MORAL ANALOGY; Chapter 5 RULES; Chapter 6 THE PROBLEM OF A STANDARD OF TASTE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;

O autorze

Dabney Townsend is Professor of Philosophy at Armstrong Atlantic University, Georgia, USA.