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Selected Writings on Aesthetics
Johann Gottfried Herder
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8188.html
"This collection provides translations of the most important aesthetic
writings of Herder, a crucial, original thinker in the field of
aesthetics, an important influence on later German philosophy, and a
writer whose significance has also been acknowledged by such recent
thinkers as Isaiah Berlin and Charles Taylor. Even advanced scholars
sometimes find a translation useful for such a difficult writer, and
some of the writings translated here, such as Critical Forests, are not
very easily found even in German."--Michael Inwood, Trinity College,
Oxford
This book presents most of Herder's important writings on aesthetics,
including the main sections of one of his major untranslated works,
Kritische Wälder (Critical Forests). These notes, essays, and
treatises, the majority of which appear here in English for the first
time, show this idiosyncratic thinker both deeply rooted in the
controversies of his day and pointing the way to future developments in
aesthetics. Chosen to reflect the extent and diversity of Herder's
concerns, the texts cover such topics as the psychology and physiology
of aesthetic perception, the classification of the arts, taste,
Shakespeare, the classical tradition, and the relationship between art
and morality.
Read more online, click here:
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8188.html.
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