The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy

by Ronald Paulson and Professor Ronald Paulson

Book Overview

This work seeks to fill a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s. He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism. The third earl of Shaftesbury, the founder of aesthetics, replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty-worship of God, with a taste for a work of art. William Hogarth, reacting against Shaftesbury's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801851718
• ISBN13: 9780801851711
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher