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The Question of style in philosophy and the arts

Title: The Question of style in philosophy and the arts / edited by Caroline van Eck, James McAllister, Renee van de Vall.
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Description

xi, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed a change in the perception of the arts and of philosophy.
In the arts this transition occurred around 1800, with, for instance, the breakdown of Vitruvianism in architecture; in philosophy the foundationalism of which Descartes and Spinoza were paradigmatic representatives, which presumed that philosophy and the sciences possessed a method of ensuring the demonstration of truths, was undermined by the idea asserted by Nietzsche and Wittgenstein that there exist alternative styles of enquiry among which a choice is open.
The essays in this book examine the circumstances, features, and consequences of this historical transition, exploring in particular new aspects and instances of the interrelatedness of content and its formal representation in both the arts and philosophy.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts.

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Contents

Introduction / Caroline A. Van Eck, James W. McAllister and Renee Van De Vall -- 1. The style of method: repression and representation in the genealogy of philosophy / Berel Lang -- 2. Style in painting / Richard Wollheim -- 3. Stylistic strategies in William Hogarth's theatrical satires / Mary Klinger Lindberg -- 4. Style in architecture: the historical origins of the dilemma / J. Mordaunt Crook -- 5. Par le style on atteint au sublime: the meaning of the term 'style' in French architectural theory of the late eighteenth century / Caroline A. Van Eck -- 6. Aesthetic forms of philosophising / Lambert Wiesing -- 7. Style and community / Salim Kemal -- 8. Metaphor and paradox in Toqueville's analysis of democracy / Frank Ankersmit -- 9. The formation of styles: science and the applied arts / James W. McAllister -- 10. Beyond the mannered: the question of style in philosophy or questionable styles in philosophy / Nicholas Davey -- 11. Personal style as articulate intentionality / Charles Altieri.
12. Style and innocence - lost, regained - and lost again? / Dorothea Franck -- Appendix: On the theatre of marionettes H. von Kleist.

ISBN

0521473411 (hard)

LCCN

94015671

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