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  1. The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something.Richard Scholar - 2005 - Oxford University Press.
    What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How - if at all - can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its 'pre-history'. The je-ne-sais-quoi is often assumed to belong purely to the realm of the (...)
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  • The object of art: the theory of illusion in eighteenth-century France.Marian Hobson - 1982 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? Questions such as these, which have dominated aesthetic theory since the Greeks, were debated with extraordinary vigour and ingenuity in eighteenth-century France. In this book Dr Hobson analyses these debates, focusing in turn on painting, the novel, drama, poetry (...)
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  • (1 other version)An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue: in two treatises.Francis Hutcheson - 1726 - Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund. Edited by Wolfgang Leidhold.
    Introduction -- Note on the texts -- An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue -- Treatise I -- An inquiry concerning beauty, order, & c. -- Treatise II -- An inquiry concerning the original of our ideas of virtue or moral good.
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  • (1 other version)Die Philosophie der Aufklärung.Ernst Cassirer - 1932 - Tübingen,: Mohr.
    Ernst Cassirers 1932 erschienene Darstellung der »Philosophie der Aufklärung« zählt zu den herausragenden Standardwerken zur Bestimmung der Leitgedanken der Epoche. »Die eigentliche ›Philosophie‹ der Aufklärung ist und bleibt«, so Cassirer, »etwas anderes als der Inbegriff dessen, was ihre führenden Denker [...] gedacht und gelehrt haben«. Entsprechend sah er das auszeichnende Merkmal seiner historischen Rekonstruktion der Epoche darin, »daß sie nicht die Geschichte der einzelnen Denker und ihrer Lehren, sondern eine reine Geschichte der Ideen der Aufklärungszeit zu geben suchte, und daß (...)
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  • Homo aestheticus: l'invention du goût à l''ge démocratique.Luc Ferry - 1990 - Grasset & Fasquelle.
    Avec leurs expositions sans tableaux ou leurs concerts de silence, les avant-gardes finissantes ont tourné les formes traditionnelles de l'art en dérision et annoncé à leur insu l'éclectisme 'postmoderne' - à défaut de choquer ou de subvertir, les oeuvres en sont venues à exprimer la vision du monde propre à leur créateur plus que le monde lui-même. L'acosmisme de l'esthétique contemporaine apporte une singulière confirmation à la thèse nietzschéenne selon laquelle la vérité de l'art résiderait dans la subjectivité de l'artiste; (...)
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  • (1 other version)Taste in Eighteenth Century France: Critical Reflections on the Origins of Aesthetics: Or.Rémy Gilbert Saisselin - 1965 - Syracuse, N.Y.]: Syracuse, N.Y., U. P.
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