The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts

by James McAllister, Renée van de Vall, Caroline Van Eck

Book Overview

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, while 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521154413
• ISBN13: 9780521154413
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"