Michel-Antoine Xhignesse is Instructor of Philosophy at Capilano University. He is the author of Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (2023). Previous translations include Quatremère de Quincy's On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts (2024) and, with James O. Young, Anne Le Fèvre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste (OUP, 2025).James O. Young, FRSC, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of many books, including Critique of Pure Music (OUP, 2014) and more than 80 articles in refereed journals. Previous translations for OUP include Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (OUP, 2015) and (with Michel-Antoine Xhignesse) Anne Le Fèvre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste (OUP, 2025).

• Front matter Translator's Introduction Note on the Translation Translation Preface Author's Note to the Reader On Religion Of the Laws End matter Bibliography

Michel-Antoine Xhignesse is Instructor of Philosophy at Capilano University. He is the author of Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (2023). Previous translations include Quatremère de Quincy's On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts (2024) and, with James O. Young, Anne Le Fèvre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste (OUP, 2025).James O. Young, FRSC, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of many books, including Critique of Pure Music (OUP, 2014) and more than 80 articles in refereed journals. Previous translations for OUP include Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (OUP, 2015) and (with Michel-Antoine Xhignesse) Anne Le Fèvre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste (OUP, 2025).

• Front matter Translator's Introduction Note on the Translation Translation Preface Author's Note to the Reader On Religion Of the Laws End matter Bibliography

Michel-Antoine Xhignesse is Instructor of Philosophy at Capilano University. He is the author of Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (2023). Previous translations include Quatremère de Quincy's On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts (2024) and, with James O. Young, Anne Le Fèvre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste (OUP, 2025).James O. Young, FRSC, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of many books, including Critique of Pure Music (OUP, 2014) and more than 80 articles in refereed journals. Previous translations for OUP include Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (OUP, 2015) and (with Michel-Antoine Xhignesse) Anne Le Fèvre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste (OUP, 2025).

• Front matter Translator's Introduction Note on the Translation Translation Preface Author's Note to the Reader On Religion Of the Laws End matter Bibliography