The Test of Time: An Essay in Philosophical Aesthetics

Politics & Social Sciences

Savile, Anthony

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Leibniz is a major figure in western philosophy and, with Descartes and Spinoza, one of the most influential philosophers of the Rationalist School. The Monadology is his most famous work and one of the most important works of modern philosophy. Leibniz and the Monadology introduces and assesses: *Leibniz's life and the background to the Monadology *the ideas and text of the Monadology*Leibniz's continuing importance to philosophy Leibniz and the Monadology is ideal for anyone coming to Leibniz for the first time. It also includes the text of the Monadology, specially translated for this GuideBook by Anthony Savile.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Leibniz and the Monadology (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

Routledge

This book presents the central arguments of three of literature's classic texts, Lessing's "Laocoon", Kant's "Critique of Judgment" and Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man". It concentrates on Lessing's defence of medium-constrained canons of judgment, on Kant's search for a rational connection between our subjectively based evidence for aesthetic judgments and the actual content of those judgments, and on Schiller's anti-formalist account of beauty and its place in men's moral development. In each case exposition is conducted hand-in-hand with detailed and textually-based philosophical development and evaluation of its themes. The aim of the book is to enable students of aesthetics to get as much out of the subject's canonical texts as they have to offer, to perceive them in the most generous light possible and to demonstrate how detailed scrutiny of classic texts may assist the development of their readers' own views about issues with which they themselves will be engaged quite apart from any concern they may have with the history of ideas.

Aesthetic Reconstructions: The Seminal Writings of Lessing, Kant, and Schiller (Aristotelian Society Series)

Blackwell Pub.

Concerned with topics at the heart of Kant's aesthetics, this provoking reading of The Critique of Judgement focuses on often misunderstood or neglected themes. Starting from the issues of the truth and justifiability of our critical assertions, Anthony Savile develops Kantian theory broadly across the arts, and shows it working with subtlety and rigour in cases as diverse as music and architecture. New light is thrown on the exemplary necessity of our aesthetic pleasures, on the Antimony of Taste, on the distinction between free and dependent beauty, on the supposed idealism of taste, and on the a priori limits of fine art. Eminently subjective material is here given a place in Kant's overall idealism in a sophisticated discussion that will invite the close attention of Kant scholars and aestheticians alike.

Kantian Aesthitics Pursued: Kantian Aesthetics Pursued

Edinburgh University Press

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Leibniz and the Monadology

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Orientation to the Central Theme

This fresh orientation to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents his central theme, the development of his Transcendental Idealism, as a ground-breaking response to perceived weaknesses in his predecessors' accounts of experiential knowledge. 
<ul>
<li>Traces the central theme of the Critique, the development of Kant's Transcendental Idealism. 
</li> <li>Offers new and original readings of the central arguments in both the Transcendental Aesthetic and the Transcendental Analytic. 
</li> <li>Appraises the success and failure of Kant's project in the Critique.</li> </ul>

Wiley/Blackwell

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