Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste' / / ed. by Babette Babich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Babich, Babette,; Caygill, Howard,; Costelloe, Timothy M.,; Démuth, Andrej,; Démuthová, Slávka,; Freydberg, Bernard,; Hume, David,; Kivy, Peter,; Korsmeyer, Carolyn,; MacLachlan, Christopher,; Mazza, Emilio,; Scruton, Roger,; Shiner, Roger A.,; Townsend, Dabney,
• HerausgeberIn: Babich, Babette,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 334 p.)

This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• I. Editor’s Introduction
• Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and Lucian
• II “Of the Standard of Taste”
• Of the Standard of Taste
• III. Of Taste and Standards
• Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle
• Hume and the Standard of Taste
• Taste and Order
• General Rules and Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste”
• Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste
• IV. Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic
• Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste
• The Problem of a Standard of Taste
• Taste and Civil Society
• Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Science and Hume’s Standard of Taste
• V. Comparisons, Art, Anatomies
• The Comparison as the Standardization of Aesthetic Norms
• Plato and Hume’s Philosophy of Art
• “Cloathing the Parts again”: The Ghost of the Treatise in the Standard of Taste
• Notes on Contributors
• Research and Citation Bibliography
• Subject Index
• Name Index