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Political aesthetics : Addison and Shaftesbury on taste, morals and society / Karl Axelsson

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021Edition: Paperback editionDescription: ix, 268 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781350243682
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.85
Contents:
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
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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

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