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Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics

Discover how ideas about taste, beauty and art have changed through primary sources in the history of aesthetics

Delve into a fascinating and varied range of ideas about art, nature and taste with Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics. Discover hard-to-find sources from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Read through newly-digitized primary texts alongside introductions and secondary literature. Study works by global thinkers including Samuel Alexander, Alexander Baumgarten, R. G. Collingwood, William Gilpin, Georg Friedrich Meier, Anna Jameson, Richard Payne Knight, Uvedale Price and Friedrich Schiller. With topics including aesthetics and religion, nature, and taste, there is a wealth of information ready to be explored.

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Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Cosmopolitan Aesthetics: Art in a Global World

Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials

Outlines Of Philosophy Of Art

Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society

The Anti-Romantic: Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Schopenhauer: Manuscript Remains (V3): Berlin Manuscripts (1818–1830)

Aesthetics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume 5: Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

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