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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779934703321

Autore

Townsend Dabney <1941->

Titolo

Hume's aesthetic theory [[electronic resource] ] : taste and sentiment / / Dabney Townsend

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2001

ISBN

1-134-56802-9

1-280-32641-7

0-203-18607-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in eighteenth century philosophy ; ; 2

Disciplina

111.85092

Soggetti

Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Shaftesbury and Hume; Taste; Hume's appeal to sentiment; The aesthetic/moral analogy; Rules; The problem of a standard of taste; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This is a challenging exploration of the link between the work of David Hume and the eighteenth century empiricist background to the parallel history of aesthetics as it developed at the time.