{"product_id":"values-of-beauty-historical-essays-in-aesthetics-paperback-9780521606691","title":"Values of Beauty; Historical Essays in Aesthetics (Paperback) 9780521606691","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eValues of Beauty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistorical Essays in Aesthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book discusses the context and content of aesthetics as they relate to philosophical history and imagination.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul  Guyer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521606691, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 June 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e382 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The author's attentive critique of Kant's position on the aesthetic experience of the ugly introduces a core motif sounding throughout the book … Guyer's book demonstrates his ability to discuss elusive ideas and impenetrable Kantian passages in a fluid and lucid prose. … I warmly recommend Values of Beauty for those desiring to deepen their understanding of Kant and his legacy in the history of modern aesthetics.' Philosophical Writings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eValues of Beauty discusses major ideas and figures in the history of aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The core of the book features Paul Guyer's essays on the epochal contribution of Immauel Kant, and sets Kant's work in the context of predecessors, contemporaries, and successors including David Hume, Alexander Gerard, Archibald Alison, Arthur Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill All of the essays emphasize the complexity rather than isolation of our aesthetic experience of both nature and art; and the interconnection of aesthetic values such as beauty and sublimity on the one hand, and prudential and moral values on the other. Guyer emphasizes that the idea of the freedom of the imagination as the key to both artistic creation and aesthetic experience has been a common thread throughout the modern history of aesthetics, although the freedom of the imagination has been understood and connected to other forms of freedom in a variety of ways.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Mostly before Kant: 1. The origins of modern aesthetics: 1711–35\u003cbr\u003e 2. The standard of taste and the 'Most Ardent Desire of Society'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Mostly Kant: 3. The harmony of the faculties revisited\u003cbr\u003e 4. Beauty and utility in eighteenth-century aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e 5. Free and adherent beauty: a modest proposal\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kant on the purity of the ugly\u003cbr\u003e 7. Beauty, freedom, and morality\u003cbr\u003e 8. The ethical value of the aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e 9. The symbols of freedom in Kant's aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e 10. Exemplary originality\u003cbr\u003e  Part III. Mostly after Kant: 11. Pleasure and knowledge in Schopenhauer's aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e 12. From Jupiter's eagle to Warhol's boxes\u003cbr\u003e 13. The value of a theory of beauty.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy: aesthetics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: aesthetics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20aesthetics%20%5BHPN%5D%22\"\u003eHPN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005652750616,"sku":"9780521606691","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521606691i_e829a86c-3887-41e5-aad7-43ba05debe02.jpg?v=1691370446","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/values-of-beauty-historical-essays-in-aesthetics-paperback-9780521606691","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}