Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Author: Kant/Goldthwait
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: PHILOSOPHY
ISBN: 9780520352803

When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, Observations shows Kant as a man of feeling rather than the dry thinker he often seemed to readers of the three Critiques.

The Sublime

The Sublime
Author: Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521143675

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 421
Release: 1963
Genre: Irland
ISBN:

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
Author: David Bromwich
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674729706

This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. David Bromwich reads Burke’s career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be.

Anthropology, History, and Education

Anthropology, History, and Education
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2007-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521452503

This 2007 volume contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature.

Philosophies of Art & Beauty

Philosophies of Art & Beauty
Author: Albert Hofstadter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 730
Release: 2009-02-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0226348113

This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.

The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)

The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
Author: Valerie Derbyshire
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2019-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1622737466

This book considers the relationships between British Romantic-era novelist, poet and writer of educational works for children, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), and a number of visual artists of the eighteenth century with whom she had connections. By exploring these associations with artists such as George Smith of Chichester, George Romney, James Northcote, John Raphael Smith and Emma Smith, the book demonstrates how the artwork of these individual artists influenced Charlotte Smith’s literary corpus. It also shows a mutual influence: how the literary works of Charlotte Smith impacted the corpora of these artists. This study uncovers information which was not heretofore known regarding these artists: it reveals a mistaken attribution of a sketch which accompanied the second volume of Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets (1797) and sheds light on a print, held by the British Museum, which was previously shrouded in mystery. The artworks also enhance the existing scholarly knowledge about Smith’s biography. This book analyses the tropes and motifs employed by Smith’s artist-associates in the context of the popular aesthetics of the period and undertakes parallel readings between such visual artistry and Smith’s literary works. The book deliberates on how Smith utilises these aesthetics as narrative devices, making use of the tropes of the picturesque, the sublime and the beautiful, as well as that of a national British heraldic artwork, in order to produce and enhance meaning in her literary oeuvre. Thus, Smith uses aesthetic structures as vehicles for social critique, commentating on political, gender, moral and class concerns in addition to enhancing the perceived authenticity of her own artistry. The scholarship aims to correct the common misperception that Smith was a lonely marginal figure of Romanticism and instead asserts her central position in an enormous network of key artistic figures of British Romanticism.

A Companion to Romanticism

A Companion to Romanticism
Author: Duncan Wu
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1999-10-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780631218777

The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.