A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth 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 second volume tells how over the course of the century philosophers in Germany, Britain, and eventually the US struggled to return to a broader approach to the value of aesthetic experience by finding room for the emotional and playful aspects of art.