Art and Enlightenment: Scottish Aesthetics in the 18th Century

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During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid - addressed themselves to aesthetic questions. Their inquiries revolved around a cluster of issues - the nature of taste, beauty and the sublime, how qualitative differences operate upon the mind ...;Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editor's Note; Introduction; Body matter; One: Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746); Reading I: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design; Two: George Turnbull (1698-1748); Reading II: A Treatise on Ancient Painting; Three: David Hume (1711-1776); Reading III: Of Beauty and Deformity; Reading IV: Of Contiguity and Distance in Space and Time; Reading V: Of the Standard of Taste; Reading VI: Of Tragedy; Four: John Baillie (Date of Birth Unknown-1743); Reading VII: An Essay on the Sublime; Five: Alexander Gerard (1728-1795). Cover Contents Front matter Title page Copyright page Series Editor's Note Introduction Body matter One: Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) Reading I: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design Two: George Turnbull (1698-1748) Reading II: A Treatise on Ancient Painting Three: David Hume (1711-1776) Reading III: Of Beauty and Deformity Reading IV: Of Contiguity and Distance in Space and Time Reading V: Of the Standard of Taste Reading VI: Of Tragedy Four: John Baillie (Date of Birth Unknown-1743) Reading VII: An Essay on the Sublime Five: Alexander Gerard (1728-1795). Reading VIII: Of the Standard of TasteSix: Adam Smith (1723-1790) Reading IX: The Influence of Custom upon Notions of Beauty Seven: Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) Reading X: Beauty Reading XI: The Standard of Taste Eight: Thomas Reid (1710-1796) Reading XII: Of Beauty Nine: James Beattie (1735-1802) Reading XIII: Illustrations Of Sublimity Ten: Archibald Alison (1757-1839) Reading XIV: Analysis of the Exercise of Imagination Reading XV: Of the Effect of Sublimity and Beauty upon the Imagination Eleven: Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) Reading XVI: On the Beautiful Back matter.