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Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics brings together newly-digitized editions of primary sources, exclusive articles, and secondary literature. Designed for undergraduates, postgraduates, faculty and scholars in philosophy, literature, and art departments, this collection explores the development of aesthetic theories during the modern period.

Bringing together a wide range of ideas about art, nature, and taste during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it opens up the history of modern aesthetics through the work of Samuel Alexander, Alexander Baumgarten, R. G. Collingwood, William Gilpin, Georg Friedrich Meier, Anna Jameson, Richard Payne Knight, Uvedale Price, Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Schiller.

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The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts

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Tomáš Koblížek (Editor), 2017

The Aesthetic in Kant : A Critique

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Kirwan James (Editor), 2004

Aesthetics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain : Volume 2: Keble’s Lectures on Poetry, 1832–1841

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John Keble (Author), Gavin Budge (Editor), 2003

Aesthetics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain : Volume 3: Tractarians

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Isaac Williams, John Keble and John Henry Newman (Authors), Gavin Budge (Edited and Introduced by), 2003

Aesthetics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain : Volume 5: Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts

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Anna Jameson (Author), Gavin Budge (Edited and Introduced by), 2003

Aesthetics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain : Volume 6: Miscellaneous Writings 1828-89

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Gavin Budge (Editor), 2003

Aesthetics and The Picturesque 1795-1840 : Volume 3: Essays on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful I

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Uvedale Price (Author), Gavin Budge (Editor), 1998

Aesthetics and The Picturesque 1795-1840 : Volume 4: Essays on the Picturesque, As Compared With the Sublime and The Beautiful II

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Uvedale Price (Author), Gavin Budge (Editor), 2001

Aesthetics and The Picturesque 1795-1840 : Volume 5: Essays On The Picturesque As Compared With The Sublime and The Beautiful III

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Uvedale Price (Author), Gavin Budge (Editor), 2001

Aesthetics and The Picturesque 1795-1840 : Volume 6: The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture Of The Late Humphry Repton, Esq.

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Humphry Repton (Author), Gavin Budge (Editor), 2001

Aesthetics and the Picturesque 1795–1840 : Volume 1: Three Essays and The Landscape

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William Gilpin and Richard Payne Knight (Authors), Gavin Budge (Editor), 2001

Aesthetics and the Picturesque 1795–1840 : Volume 2: A Review of the Landscape

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William Marshall (Author), Gavin Budge (Editor), 2001

Aesthetics : Key Concepts in Philosophy

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Daniel Herwitz (Author), 2008

Aesthetics of Ugliness : A Critical Edition

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Karl Rosenkranz (Author), Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich (Edited and translated by), 2015

Aesthetics, Or The Analogy Of The Sensible Sciences Indicated : A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste

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George Field and Martin M‘Dermot (Authors), 2003

Aesthetics: Sources in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1 : The Four Ages: Together with Essays on Various Subjects

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William Jackson (Author), John Valdimir Price (Edited and Introduced by), 1998

Aesthetics: Sources in the Nineteenth Century : Volume 3: Aesthetics, or The Science of Beauty

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John Bascom (Author), John Valdimir Price (Editor), 2015

Aesthetics: Sources in the Nineteenth Century : Volume 8: Studies in Poetry and Philosophy

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John Campbell Shairp (Author), John Valdimir Price (Editor), 1999

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

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Alessandro Giovannelli (Editor), 2012

Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance : A Cosmology of Unsociable Bodies

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Omar Rivera (Author), 2021

The Anti-Romantic : Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism

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Jeffrey Reid (Author), 2014

The Architecture Of Freedom : Hegel, Subjectivity, And The Postcolonial State

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Hassanaly Ladha (Author), 2019

Art, Myth and Society in Hegel’s Aesthetics

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David James (Author), 2009

Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer

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Jane Tormey and Gillian Whitely (Editors), (Illustrated by), 2020

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Beauty and Other Forms of Value

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Samuel Alexander (Author), 2000

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics

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Anna Christina Ribeiro (Editor), 2015

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Fichte

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Marina F. Bykova (Editor), 2020

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

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Marcello Ghilardi and Hans-Georg Moeller (Editors), 2021

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

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Arindam Chakrabarti (Editor), 2016

C (4)

Chinese Confucian Literati Culture and Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Aesthetics

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Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston

Cosmopolitan Aesthetics : Art in a Global World

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Daniel Herwitz (Author), 2020

Creation and the Function of Art : Technē, Poiesis and the Problem of Aesthetics

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Jason Tuckwell (Author), 2017

Critical Essays, Volume 8

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Edward Burnaby Greene (Author), 1998

D (4)

The Demands of Taste in Kant’s Aesthetics

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Brent Kalar (Author), 2006

Dialectic of Romanticism : A Critique of Modernism

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David Roberts and Peter Murphy (Authors), 2004

The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency : Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno

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Ayon Maharaj (Author), 2013

Dialogue On Beauty (1731) : A Dialogue in the Manner of Plato

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George Stubbes and Joseph Spence (Authors), 2003

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Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant

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Maria Borges (Author), 2019

Essays on Art, Literature and Education

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Richard Claverhouse Jebb (Author), Robert B. Todd (Editor), 2002

Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason

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Georg Friedrich Meier (Author), Aaron Bunch, Axel Gelfert and Riccardo Pozzo (Translated by), 2016

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Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art

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Devin Zane Shaw (Author), 2010

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Hegel's Political Aesthetics : Art in Modern Society

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Stefan Bird-Pollan and Vladimir Marchenkov (Authors), 2021

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The Iconic Imagination

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Douglas Hedley (Author), 2016

Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting : Observations on the Correspondence between Poetry and Music

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Daniel Webb (Author), 1998

Introduction to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant’s Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials

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J. Colin McQuillan

Introduction to Anna Jameson’s Legends of the Madonna, as Represented in the Fine Arts

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Caroline Palmer

Introduction to Friedrich Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters

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María del Rosario Acosta López

Introduction to Georg Friedrich Meier’s Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason

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J. Colin McQuillan

Introduction to Humphry Repton's The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq. Being his Entire Works on these Subjects. A New Edition: with an Historical and Scientific Introduction, a Systematic Analysis, a Biographical Notice, Notes, and a Copious Alphabetical Index by J. C Loudon

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Timothy M. Costelloe

Introduction to R.G. Collingwood's Outlines of a Philosophy of Art, 1925

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Peter Skagestad

Introduction to Samuel Alexander’s Beauty and Other Forms of Value

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Michael Rush

Introduction to Samuel Alexander’s Philosophical and Literary Pieces

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Michael Rush

Introduction to Uvedale Price’s Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful

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Stephanie Ross

Introduction to William Gilpin’s Three Essays and The Landscape

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Timothy M. Costelloe

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Kant on Spontaneity

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Marco Sgarbi (Author), 2014

Kant’s Aesthetic Theory : The Beautiful and Agreeable

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David Berger (Author), 2009

Kant’s Concept of Genius : Its Origin and Function in the Third Critique

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Paul W. Bruno (Author), 2010

Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgement : A Reader’s Guide

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Fiona Hughes (Author), 2010

Kant’s Transition Project and Late Philosophy : Connecting the Opus postumum and Metaphysics of Morals

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Oliver Thorndike (Author), 2018

Key Terms in Philosophy of Art

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Tiger C. Roholt (Author), 2013

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Letters Concerning Taste (And) Essays : Read to a Literary Society

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John Gilbert Cooper and James Moor (Authors), 2003

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Metaphysics : A Critical Translation with Kant’s Elucidations, Selected Notes and Related Materials

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Alexander Baumgarten (Author), Courtney D Fugate and John Hymers (Translated and Edited with an Introduction by), 2017

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On the Aesthetic Education of Man : In a Series of Letters

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Friedrich Schiller (Author), Reginald Snell (Translated by), 1994

Outlines of a Philosophy of Art

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R.G. Collingwood (Author), 1994

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Philosophical And Literary Pieces

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Samuel Alexander (Author), 2003

The Philosophy of Art: The Question of Definition : From Hegel to Post-Dantian Theories

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Tiziana Andina (Author), Natalia Iacobelli (Translated by), 2013

The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau : Ethics, Politics, and Nature

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Lester H. Hunt (Author), 2020

The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling

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Christopher Yates (Author), 2013

Political Aesthetics : Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society

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Karl Axelsson (Author), 2019

The Pursuit of Pleasure : Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London

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Jane Rendell (Author), 2001

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The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany: Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776 : Volume 1: Die Sitten-Lehrer Oder Erzehlung Philosophischer Gespräche, Welche die Natur und die Tugend Betreffen

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Anthony Ashley Cooper (Author), Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (Editors), Johann Joachim Spalding (Translated by), 2001

The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany: Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776 : Volume 2: Zergliederung der Schönheit

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William Hogarth (Author), Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (Editors), Christlob Mylius (Translated by), 2001

The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany: Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776 : Volume 3: Vier Abhandlungen

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David Hume (Author), Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (Editors), Friedric Gabriel Resewitz (Translated by), 2001

The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany: Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776, Volume 4 : Untersuchung unsrer Begriffe von Schönheit und Tugend in zwo Abhandlungen

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Francis Hutcheson (Author), Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (Editors), Johann Heinrich Merck (Translated by), 2001

The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany: Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776 : Volume 5: Versuch über den Geschmack

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Alexander Gerard (Author), Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (Editors), Karl Friedrich Flögel (Translated by), 2001

The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany: Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776, Volume 6 : Philosophische Untersuchungen über den Ursprung unsrer Begriffe vom Erhabnen und Schönen

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Edmund Burke (Author), Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (Editors), Christian Garve (Translated by), 2001

The Reception of British Aesthetics in Germany: Seven Significant Translations, 1745-1776 : Volume 7: Versuch über das Genie

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Alexander Gerard (Author), Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn (Editors), Christian Garve (Translated by), 2001

Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique

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Michael Wayne (Author), 2014

The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture

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Gregg Lambert (Author), 2004

Revealing the Quintessential Schopenhauer through His Aesthetics: Lessons from Schopenhauer’s Manuscript Remains

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Robert Wicks

R.G. Collingwood : An Introduction

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Peter Johnson (Author), 1998

The Role of the Museum

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Daniel Herwitz

Romantic and Post-Romantic Conceptions of Artistic Expression : From Kant to Collingwood

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David Collins

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Schelling's Transcendental Idealism : A Critical Exposition

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John Watson (Author), 1994

Schopenhauer: Manuscript Remains (V1) : Early Manuscripts (1804-1818)

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Arthur Schopenhauer (Author), Arthur Hübscher (Editor), E.F.J. Payne (Translated by), 1990

Schopenhauer: Manuscript Remains (V2): Critical Debates (1809-1818)

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Arthur Schopenhauer (Author), Arthur Hübscher (Editor), E.F.J. Payne (Translated by), 1988

Schopenhauer: Manuscript Remains (V3) : Berlin Manuscripts (1818–1830)

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Arthur Schopenhauer (Author), Arthur Hübscher (Editor), E.F.J. Payne (Translated by), 1989

Schopenhauer: Manuscript Remains (V4): The Manuscript Books of 1830–1852 and Last Manuscripts, Volume IV

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Arthur Schopenhauer (Author), Arthur Hübscher (Editor), E.F.J. Payne (Translated by), 1990

Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy

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Scott M. Campbell and Paul W. Bruno (Editors), 2013

The Suspension of Reason in Hegel and Schelling

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Christopher Lauer (Author), 2011

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