Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste'

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste'

Edited by: Babette Babich

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110585575

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About this book

This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history of science. This much needed volume on David Hume will enrich scholars across all levels of university study and research.

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Babette Babich, Fordham University, New York City, USA.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
I. Editor’s Introduction
Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and Lucian Babette Babich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II “Of the Standard of Taste”
Of the Standard of Taste David Hume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
III. Of Taste and Standards
Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle Peter Kivy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Hume and the Standard of Taste Christopher MacLachlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Taste and Order Roger Scruton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
General Rules and Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” Timothy M. Costelloe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste Carolyn Korsmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
IV. Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic
Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste Roger A. Shiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
The Problem of a Standard of Taste Dabney Townsend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Taste and Civil Society Howard Caygill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Science and Hume’s Standard of Taste Babette Babich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
V. Comparisons, Art, Anatomies
The Comparison as the Standardization of Aesthetic Norms Andrej Démuth and Slávka Démuthová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Plato and Hume’s Philosophy of Art Bernard Freydberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
“Cloathing the Parts again”: The Ghost of the Treatise in the Standard of Taste Emilio Mazza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Research and Citation Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries, students (philosophy/aesthetics; art history; history of ideas).
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 334
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Hume; David; taste; judgement; Kant; Immanuel

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9783110585575

Hardcover

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9783110585346

Paperback

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110585643