|aAesthetics from classical Greece to the present :|ba short history /|cMonroe C. Beardsley.
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|aUniversity :|bUniversity of Alabama Press,|c1975, c1966.
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|a414 p. ;|c21 cm.
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|aReprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York.
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|aIncludes bibliographies and index.
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|g1.|tFirst thoughts:|tBibliography --|g2.|tPlato:|tArt and imitation ;|tBeauty ;|tMorality ;|tBibliography --|g3.|tAristotle:|tThe proper pleasure of tragedy ;|tAristotle's answer to Plato ;|tBibliography --|g4.|tThe later classical philosophers:|tHellenism and Roman classicism ;|tPlotinus ;|tBibliography --|g5.|tThe Middle Ages:|tSt. Augustine ;|tSt. Thomas Aquinas ;|tThe theory of interpretation ;|tBibliography --|g6.|tThe Renaissance:|tNeoplatonism ;|tTheory of painting ;|tMusic and poetry ;|tBibliography --|g7.|tThe Enlightenment: Cartesian rationalism:|tPoetics ;|tTheory of painting and music ;|tToward a unified aesthetics ;|tBibliography --|g8.|tThe Enlightenment: empiricism:|tImagination and artistic creation ;|tThe problem of taste: Shaftesbury to Hume ;|tThe aesthetic qualities: Hogarth to Alison ;|tBibliography --|g9.|tGerman idealism:|tImmanuel Kant ;|tObjective idealism ;|tBibliography --|g10.|tRomanticism:|tThe aesthetics of feeling ;|tTheories of the imagination ;|tSchopenhauer and Nietzsche ;|tBibliography --|g11.|tThe artist and society:|tArt for art's sake ;|tRealism ;|tSocial responsibility ;|tBibliography --|g12.|tContemporary developments:|tCroce and the metaphysicians ;|tSantayana and Dewey ;|tSemiotic approaches ;|tMarxism-Leninism ;|tPhenomenology and existentialism ;|tEmpiricism ;|tBibliography.