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Title Reading David Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste' / Babette Babich
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (342 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- I. Editor's Introduction -- Signatures and Taste: Hume's Mortal Leavings and Lucian / Babich, Babette -- II "Of the Standard of Taste" -- Of the Standard of Taste / Hume, David -- III. Of Taste and Standards -- Hume's Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle / Kivy, Peter -- Hume and the Standard of Taste / MacLachlan, Christopher -- Taste and Order / Scruton, Roger -- General Rules and Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" / Costelloe, Timothy M. -- Gendered Concepts and Hume's Standard of Taste / Korsmeyer, Carolyn -- IV. Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic -- Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste / Shiner, Roger A. -- The Problem of a Standard of Taste / Townsend, Dabney -- Taste and Civil Society / Caygill, Howard -- Nietzsche's Aesthetic Science and Hume's Standard of Taste / Babich, Babette -- V. Comparisons, Art, Anatomies -- The Comparison as the Standardization of Aesthetic Norms / Démuth, Andrej / Démuthová, Slávka -- Plato and Hume's Philosophy of Art / Freydberg, Bernard -- "Cloathing the Parts again": The Ghost of the Treatise in the Standard of Taste / Mazza, Emilio -- Notes on Contributors -- Research and Citation Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index
Summary This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history of science. This much needed volume on David Hume will enrich scholars across all levels of university study and research
Notes In English
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Subject Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hume, David, 1711-1776. Of the standard of taste.
SUBJECT Hume, David, 1711-1776 fast
Subject Judgment.
Aesthetics.
Judgment
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Aesthetics
Judgment
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Babich, Babette, editor
ISBN 311058557X
9783110585575