Placing aesthetics : reflections on the philosophic tradition /

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Author / Creator:Wood, Robert E., 1934- author.
Imprint:Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©1999.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Series in Continental thought ; 26
Series in Continental thought ; 26.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115398
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ISBN:0821440454
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0821412809
9780821412800
0821412817
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-406) and indexes.
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Summary:Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker''s philosophy. In Professor Robert Wood''s study, aesthetics is not peripheral but rather central to the speculative tradition and to human existence as such. In Dewey''s terms, aesthetics is "experience in its integrity." Its personal ground is in "the heart," which is the dispositional ground formed by genetic, cultural, and personal histo.
Other form:Print version: Wood, Robert E., 1934- Placing aesthetics. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©1999 0821412809