Description: Selected Writings on Aesthetics, Hardcover by Von Herder, Johann Gottfried, ISBN 0691115958, ISBN-13 9780691115955, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe.
This book presents most of Herders important writings on aesthetics, including the main sections of one of his major untranslated works, Kritische Wlder (Critical Forests). These notes, essays, and treatises, the majority of which appear here in English for the first time, show this idiosyncratic thinker both deeply rooted in the controversies of his day and pointing the way to future developments in aesthetics. Chosen to reflect the extent and diversity of Herders concerns, the texts cover such topics as the psychology and physiology of aesthetic perception, the classification of the arts, taste, Shakespeare, the classical tradition, and the relationship between art and morality.
Few thinkers have reflected so sensitively and productively on the cultural, historical, anthropological, ethical, and theological dimensions of art and the creative process. With this book, the importance of aesthetics to the evolution and texture of Herders own thought, as well as his profound contribution to that discipline, comes fully into view.
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Book Title: Selected Writings on Aesthetics
Number of Pages: 468 Pages
Publication Name: Selected Writings on Aesthetics
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Aesthetics
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2006
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Johann Gottfried. Herder
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover