Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
by Benedetto Croce
About this book
One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influential ideas of aesthetics. Croce defines art in terms of intuition and expression, thus replacing beauty as the primary criterion for aesthetic evaluation. - Summary by Mary J
Chapters (29)
1Intuition and Expression
2Intuition and Art
3Art and Philosophy
4Historicism and Intellectualism in Aesthetic
5Analogous Errors in Historic and in Logic
6Theoretic and Practical Activity
7Analogy Between the Theoretic and the Practical
8Exclusion of Other Spiritual Forms
9Indivisibility of Expression into Modes or Grades and Critique of Rhetoric
10Aesthetic Feelings and the Distinction between the Beautiful and the Ugly
11Critique of Aesthetic Hedonism
12The Aesthetic of the Sympathetic and Pseudo-Aesthetic Concepts
13The So-Called Physically Beautiful in Nature and in Art
14Errors Arising from the Confusion between Physic and Aesthetic
15The Activity of Externalization. Technique and the Theory of the Arts
16Taste and the Reproduction of Art
17The History of Literature and of Art
18Conclusion: Identity of Linguistic and Aesthetic
19Historical Summary, Part 1
20Historical Summary, Part 2
21Historical Summary, Part 3
22Historical Summary, Part 4
23Historical Summary, Part 5
24Historical Summary, Part 6
25Historical Summary, Part 7
26Historical Summary, Part 8
27Appendix, Part 1
28Appendix, Part 2
29Appendix, Part 3
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