Art and Enlightenment: Scottish Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century

by Jonathan Friday

During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid - addressed themselves to aesthetic questions. Their inquiries revolved around a cluster of issues - the nature of taste, beauty and the sublime, how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907845762
• ISBN13: 9780907845768
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"