The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy

by Ronald Paulson and Professor Ronald Paulson

Book Overview

Originally published in 1995. In The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange, Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty--worship of God, with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421430568
• ISBN13: 9781421430560
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"