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Homo aestheticus : the invention of taste in the democratic age

Title
Homo aestheticus : the invention of taste in the democratic age / Luc Ferry ; translated by Robert de Loaiza.
Author
Ferry, Luc.
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [1993], ©1993.

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Description
vii, 276 pages; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Homo aestheticus. English
Alternative Title
Homo aestheticus.
Subject
  • Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 > Aesthetics
  • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 > Aesthetics
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 > Aesthetics
  • Aesthetics, Modern > 18th century
  • Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century
  • Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century
  • Subjectivity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The Revolution of Taste -- 2. Between Heart and Reason -- 3. The Kantian Moment: The Subject of Reflection -- 4. The Hegelian Moment: The Absolute Subject or the Death of Art -- 5. The Nietzschean Moment: The Shattered Subject and the Onset of Contemporary Aesthetics -- 6. The Decline of the Avant-Gardes: Postmodernity -- 7. The Problem of Ethics in an Age of Aesthetics.
ISBN
0226244598 (alk. paper)
LCCN
93004910
OCLC
  • 28337433
  • ocm28337433
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries