The Seventh Sense Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

by Kivy, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780199260010
• ISBN10: 019926001X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Now reissued with substantial new material, The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, and its huge influence on British aesthetics. Peter Kivy's book is a seminal work on early modern aesthetics, and has been much in demand since going out of print some years ago; this new edition brings the book up to date with the addition of eight essays that Kivy has written on the subject since 1976.

Table of Contents

PART I HUTCHESON'S FIRST "INQUIRY"
I. Just Before Hutcheson	3	(21)
II. The sense of "Sense"	24	(20)
III. The Sense of "Beauty"	44	(19)
IV. The Sense of "Beautiful"	63	(25)
V. Varieties of Aesthetic Experience	88	(23)
VI. God and Aesthetics	111	(16)
PART II HUTCHESON AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER
VII. Rationalist Aesthetics in the Age of Hutcheson	127	(16)
VIII. Hutcheson and Hume	143	(15)
IX. Common sense and the sense of Beauty	158	(20)
X. The Rise of Association	178	(14)
XI. The Triumph of Association	192	(15)
XII. End of an Era	207	(16)
Appendix A	223	(7)
Appendix B	230	(9)
PART III THE LOGIC OF TASTE
XIII. The Logic of Taste: The First Fifty Years	239	(21)
XIV. Hutcheson's Idea of Beauty	260	(6)
XV. The "Sense" of Beauty and the Sense of "Art"	266	(17)
XVI. Hume's Neighbour's Wife	283	(18)
XVII. Hume's "Sentiments"	301	(10)
XVIII. The Logic of Taste: Reid and the Second Fifty Years	311	(24)
XIX. Seeing (and so forth) is Believing (among other things)	335	(20)
Endnotes	355	(28)
Publication History	383	(1)
Bibliography	384	(7)
Index	391