Selected writings on aesthetics

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Herder Johann Gottfried 1744-1803.
Group Author: Moore Gregory 1972-
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Item Description: Selections.
Carrier Form: x, 455 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0691115958 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691115955 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Index Number: B83
CLC: B83
Call Number: B83/H541
Contents: Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-447) and index.
Is the beauty of the body a herald of the beauty of the soul? -- A monument to Baumgarten -- Critical forest, or reflections on the art and science of the beautiful: first grove, dedicated to Mr. Lessing's Laocoön -- Critical forests: fourth grove, on Riedel's Theory of the beaux arts -- Shakespeare -- The causes of sunken taste among the different peoples in whom it once blossomed -- On the influence of the belles lettres on the higher sciences -- Does painting or music have a greater effect?: a divine colloquy -- On image, poetry, and fable.