Reid and His French Disciples: Aesthetics and Metaphysics - Couverture rigide

Manns, James W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004099425 ISBN 13 : 9789004099425

Editeur : Brill, 1994

Synopsis

The book opens with the most detailed account yet of Thomas Reid's expressionist aesthetic theory, integrating it thoroughly into his metaphysical, epistemological, and metaphilosophical viewpoints, each of which is examined closely in its turn. The book then traces out the influence which Reid, an eighteenth-century Scottish thinker, exercised on nineteenth-century French philosophy, an influence which proves considerable.
Victor Cousin, the most significant philosophical figure in post-Napoleonic France, was profoundly impressed by Reid' s thinking. The author demonstrates the depth and extent of his dependence in epistemological, metaphysical, and aesthetic matters.
He then pursues Cousin's (hence Reid's) legacy through three succeeding generations of French academics and intellectuals, focusing throughout on the development of the expressionist aesthetic. Principal among these heritors are Théodore Jouffroy, Charles Lévêque, and Sully-Prudhomme.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James W. Manns, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Boston University, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He has published principally in the field of aesthetics and on the philosophy of Thomas Reid.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004099425
• ISBN 13: 9789004099425
• Reliure: Cuir/luxe
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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