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<i>Taste and Experience in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics </i><b></b>acknowledges theories of taste, beauty, the fine arts, genius, expression, the sublime and the picturesque in their own right, distinct from later theories of an exclusively aesthetic kind of experience. By drawing on a wealth of thinkers, including several marginalised philosophers, Dabney Townsend presents a novel reading of the century to challenge our understanding of art and move towards a unique way of thinking about aesth
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- Author
- Dabney Townsend
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350298743
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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