A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 1, The Eighteenth Century

A History of Modern Aesthetics focuses on the idea that aesthetic experience is important because it is a form of cognition, because of its emotional impact, and because of the sheer pleasure of the free play of our mental powers triggered by works of art and nature. This first volume recounts how philosophers in Britain, France, and Germany developed these new approaches and searched for ways to combine new approaches with the cognitivism of traditional aesthetics.