aesthetics summary
Learn about the nature and approaches of aesthetics
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William Hogarth Summary
William Hogarth was the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad, best known for his moral and satirical engravings and paintings—e.g., A Rake’s Progress (eight scenes,1733). His attempts to build a reputation as a history painter and portraitist, however, met with financial
George Santayana Summary
George Santayana was a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy, and literary criticism. From 1912, he resided in Europe, chiefly in France and Italy. George Santayana was born in Madrid of Spanish parents. He never
Arthur Schopenhauer Summary
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher, often called the “philosopher of pessimism,” who was primarily important as the exponent of a metaphysical doctrine of the will in immediate reaction against Hegelian idealism. His writings influenced later existential philosophy and Freudian
Johann Gottfried von Herder Summary
Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German critic, theologian, and philosopher, who was the leading figure of the Sturm und Drang literary movement and an innovator in the philosophy of history and culture. His influence, augmented by his contacts with the young J.W. von Goethe, made him a harbinger