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Political Aesthetics

Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society

Av Karl Axelsson

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Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, this book challenges conventional views of how art’s significance developed in society.The 18th century is often said to have involved a radical transformation in the concept of art: from the understanding that it has a practical purpose to the modern belief that it is intrinsically valuable. By exploring the ground between these notions of art’s function, Karl Axelsson reveals how scholars of culture made taste, morals and a politically stable society integral to their claims about the experience of nature and art. Focusing on writings by two of the most prolific men of letters in the 18th century, Joseph Addison (1672–1719) and the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), Axelsson contests the conviction that modern aesthetic autonomy reoriented the criticism and philosophy originally prompted by these two key figures in the history of aesthetics. By re-examining the political relevance of Addison and Shaftesbury’s theories of taste, Axelsson shows that first and foremost they sought to fortify a natural link between aesthetic experience and modern political society.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-08-22
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 572 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 280
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350077751
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Karl Axelsson is Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of The Sublime: Precursors and British Eighteenth-Century Conceptions (Peter Lang, 2007) and co-editor of Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics (Routledge, 2020). Axelsson is also the Swedish translator of the third Earl of Shaftesbury’s The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody.

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Political Aesthetics magnificently re-writes the history of early eighteenth century British aesthetic thought. For too long Addison and Shaftesbury’s aesthetic speculations have been read in massively distorting ways and contexts, essentially seeing these writings as pre-cursors to Kant. Axelsson demonstrates that they are both more interesting and strange: careful and detailed explorations in the moral and political sinews of aesthetic thought. This intervention will not only re-orient histories of aesthetics it will also provide a substantial basis for thinking the aesthetic in our own time.

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