The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics / Edition 2

by Peter Kivy

Overview

Now reissued with substantial new material, The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, and its huge influence on British aesthetics. Peter Kivy's book is a seminal work on early modern aesthetics, and has been much in demand since going out of print some years ago; this new edition brings the book up to date with the addition of eight essays that Kivy has written on the subject since 1976.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199260027
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/29/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.24(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Rutgers University, New Jersey

Table of Contents

I. Part I: Hutcheson's First 'Inquiry'II. The Sense of 'Sense'III. The Sense of 'Beauty'IV. The Sense of 'Beautiful'V. Varieties of Aesthetic ExperienceVI. God and AestheticsVII. Part II: Hutcheson - And Shortly ThereafterVIII. Hutcheson and HumeIX. Common Sense and the Sense of BeautyX. The Rise of AssociationXI. The Triumph of AssociationXII. End of an EraXIII. Part III: The Logic of TasteXIV. Hutcheson's Idea of BeautyXV. The 'Sense' of BeautyXVI. Hume's Neighbour's WifeXVII. Hume's 'Sentiments'XVIII. The Logic of TasteXIX. The Expression Theory of ArtXX. Seeing is Believing

Editorial Reviews

"Reading—or for many, rereading—Kivy's book, gives one a sense of why it still remains the only study of its kind: it is hard to imagine how any rewriting could have improved the books' philosophical content...the essays are a pleasure to read: clear, informative, and precise, like The Seventh Sense itself. ... As Hutcheson and his contemporaries were fond of emphasizing, one mark of excellence in any creative or scholarly endeavor is that it has stood the test of time... Kivy's book passes this test with flying colors, and there is no reason to think that it will not endure through a span of further years with the same resilience that has seen it so well through the past three decades."—Notre Dame Philosophical Review

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