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Author:   Karl Axelsson ,  Camilla Flodin ,  Mattias Pirholt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.544kg
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9780367347963

ISBN 10:   0367347962
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   26 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, and Mattias Pirholt Part I: Aesthetic Concepts, Morality, and Society in the British Tradition 1. The Evolution of Aesthetic Concepts 1700–1800 Peter de Bolla 2. Beauty, Nature, and Society in Shaftesbury’s The Moralists Karl Axelsson 3. Force Makes Right; or, Shaftesbury’s Moral-Aesthetic Dynamics Neil Saccamano 4. Civilization in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Subject for Taste Maria Semi 5. Adam Smith’s Aesthetic Psychology Emily Brady and Nicole Hall Part II: British and German Liaisons 6. Aesthetic Autonomy Is Not the Autonomy of Art Paul Guyer 7. From Spiritual Taste to Good Taste? Reflections on the Search for Aesthetic Theory’s Pietist Roots Simon Grote 8. Is there a Middle Way? Mendelssohn on the Faculty of Approbation Anne Pollok 9. Germaine de Staël and the Politics of Taste Karen Green Part III: Science and a New Model of Society Around 1800 10. Goethe’s Exploratory Idealism Mattias Pirholt 11. Physics as Art: Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s Construction Projects Jocelyn Holland 12. Hölderlin’s Higher Enlightenment Camilla Flodin 13. Rethinking Disinterestedness Through the Rise of Political Economy Natalie Roxburgh

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Karl Axelsson is Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. His most recent book is Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society (2019). Axelsson is also the Swedish translator of the third Earl of Shaftesbury’s The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody (forthcoming). Camilla Flodin holds a PhD in Aesthetics from Uppsala University and is currently Lecturer and Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She has published extensively on Adorno’s aesthetics and the art-nature relationship in German Romanticism and Idealism. Flodin is also a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Adorno (forthcoming). Mattias Pirholt is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. His most recent book publications include Grenzerfahrungen: Studien zu Goethes Ästhetik (2018) and Das Abenteuer des Gewöhnlichen: Alltag in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Moderne (co-edited with Thorsten Carstensen, 2018).

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