The British Aesthetic Tradition

From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein

Timothy M Costelloe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Mar '13

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Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.

The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought.

'[The British Aesthetic Tradition] articulates a line of inquiry that offers a capacious and suggestive account of how modern and eighteenth-century British aesthetics can be understood within a long and at times contentious tradition.' Theresa M. Kelley, Modern Philology

ISBN: 9780521734486

Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 19mm

Weight: 480g

360 pages