The Insistence of Art : Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity / / edited by Paul A. Kottman.

Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses t...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2016
2017
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (226 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. The Claim of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy and Early Modern Artistry
  • Chapter 1. Allegory, Poetic Theology, and Enlightenment Aesthetics
  • Chapter 2. Object Lessons: Reification and Renaissance Epitaphic Poetry
  • Chapter 3. How Do We Recognize Metaphysical Poetry?
  • Chapter 4. Literature, Prejudice, Historicity: The Philosophical Importance of Herder’s Shakespeare Studies
  • Chapter 5. Reaching Conclusions: Art and Philosophy in Hegel and Shakespeare
  • Chapter 6. “All Art Constantly Aspires to the Condition of Music”—Except the Art of Music: Reviewing the Contest of the Sister Arts
  • Chapter 7. The Beauty of Architecture at the End of the Seventeenth Century in Paris, Greece, and Rome
  • Chapter 8. Strokes of Wit: Theorizing Beauty in Baroque Italy
  • Chapter 9. Goya: Secularization and the Aesthetics of Belief
  • Chapter 10. Remembering Isaac: On the Impossibility and Immorality of Faith
  • Contributors
  • Index