Reid and His French Disciples

Aesthetics and Metaphysics
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09942-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

The book opens with the most detailed account yet of Thomas Reid's expressionist aesthetic theory, integrating it thoroughly into his metaphysical, epistemological, and metaphilosophical viewpoints, each of which is examined closely in its turn. The book then traces out the influence which Reid, an eighteenth-century Scottish thinker, exercised on nineteenth-century French philosophy, an influence which proves considerable.
Victor Cousin, the most significant philosophical figure in post-Napoleonic France, was profoundly impressed by Reid' s thinking. The author demonstrates the depth and extent of his dependence in epistemological, metaphysical, and aesthetic matters.
He then pursues Cousin's (hence Reid's) legacy through three succeeding generations of French academics and intellectuals, focusing throughout on the development of the expressionist aesthetic. Principal among these heritors are Théodore Jouffroy, Charles Lévêque, and Sully-Prudhomme.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manns, James W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

James W. Manns, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Boston University, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He has published principally in the field of aesthetics and on the philosophy of Thomas Reid.