Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781108716352
$36.82
In this book, Rachel Zuckert provides the first overarching account of Johann Gottfried Herder's complex aesthetic theory. She guides the reader through Herder's texts, showing how they relate to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European philosophy of art, and focusing on two main concepts: aesthetic naturalism, the view that art is natural to and naturally valuable for human beings as organic, embodied beings, and - unusually for Herder's time - aesthetic pluralism, the view that aesthetic value takes many diverse and culturally varying forms. Zuckert argues that Herder's theory plays a pivotal role in the history of philosophical aesthetics, marking the transition from the eighteenth-century focus on aesthetic value as grounded in human nature to the nineteenth-century focus on art as socially significant and historically variable. Her study illuminates Herder's significance as an innovative thinker in aesthetics, and will interest a range of readers in philosophy of art and European thought.
- | Author: Rachel Zuckert
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: January 21, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 280 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1108716350
- | ISBN-13: 9781108716352
- Author:
- Rachel Zuckert
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- January 21, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 280 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1108716350
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108716352