Imitation and society : the persistence of mimesis in the aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant /
"This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis w...
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Literature and philosophy.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Burke and the ambitions of taste
- Introducing taste
- Delight, or the labor theory of pleasure
- Sensation and sensibility
- Shaftesbury and the "charm of confederation"
- Sympathy
- Ambition
- Spectatorship
- Hogarth and the lineage of taste
- The epistemology of lines
- The eye for pleasure
- Dance and the movement from vision to imagination
- Eye and mind
- Kant and the pleasures of taste
- Activating sensibility
- Determining reflective judgment
- Phantom sensations and mistake subjects
- Representative pleasures
- Opaque pleasures.
