The theory of beauty / by E.F. Carritt
1931, Fourth Edition. London : Methuen. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #408203
Physical description: viii, 344 pages ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The subject matter of aesthetics -- The method of aesthetics -- The hedonistic-moral theory : Plato, Tolstoy and Ruskin -- The realistic-typical theory : Plato, Aristotle and the eighteenth century -- Intellectualist theories : Kant and Coleridge -- Emotionalist theories : Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Intellectualist theories : Hegel -- The expressionist theory : Croce -- The sublime -- Formal and expressive beauty -- The theories of Einfühlung -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : The ludicrous -- Appendix B : The subject -- Index. Subjects: Philosophy; Aesthetics; Theory.
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