Political aesthetics : Addison and Shaftesbury on taste, morals and society

Axelsson, Karl

Political aesthetics : Addison and Shaftesbury on taste, morals and society / Karl Axelsson - Paperback edition - ix, 268 pages

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-266) and index.

Introduction Part 1. Addison, taste, and the moral body politic The displacement of political authority The disposition of taste Aurelia and Fulvia Ethico-emotive pleasures Faith and political enthusiasm Britain and the new classicism The perils of the foreign Part 2. Moved by affections : Shaftesbury on beauty and society Natural affections Self-knowledge and disinterestedness A disinterested (aesthetic) perception The work of art as a whole Taste for society Coda : reading Addison and Shaftesbury in the future

9781350243682


Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713


Aesthetics, British--18th century
Aesthetics--Political aspects

111.85