Princeton. 2004. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691115958. Translated from the German & Edited by Gregory Moore. 468 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Germany Translated Philosophy Literary Criticism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe. This book presents most of Herder's important writings on aesthetics, including the main sections of one of his major untranslated works, Kritische Wälder (Critical Forests). These notes, essays, and treatises, the majority of which appear here in English for the first time, show this idiosyncratic thinker both deeply rooted in the controversies of his day and pointing the way to future developments in aesthetics. Chosen to reflect the extent and diversity of Herder's concerns, the texts cover such topics as the psychology and physiology of aesthetic perception, the classification of the arts, taste, Shakespeare, the classical tradition, and the relationship between art and morality. Few thinkers have reflected so sensitively and productively on the cultural, ...

Princeton Princeton University Press 2006 Annotated. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 480 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.

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Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 2006. Hardcover. New. annotated edition. 468 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches. 2006. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691115958 9780691115955 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691115958, ISBN13: 9780691115955, [publisher: Princeton University Press 2006-06-27, Princeton, N.J. |Woodstock] Hardcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 0691115958, ISBN13: 9780691115955, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Hardcover annotated edition. 468 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.
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