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

Authors: Babette Babich Publisher: De Gruyter Publication date: 2019 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 342 Publication formats: EAN: 9783110585575 ISBN: 9783110585575 Category: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 Western philosophy, from c 1900 - Philosophy: aesthetics Ethics & moral philosophy Publisher's index: - Bibliographic note: -

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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.

TOC

  • Acknowledgments 6
  • Table of Contents 8
  • I. Editor’s Introduction 12
  • Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and Lucian 12
  • Of the Standard of Taste 34
  • II “Of the Standard of Taste” 34
  • Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle 52
  • III. Of Taste and Standards 52
  • Hume and the Standard of Taste 62
  • Taste and Order 76
  • General Rules and Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” 86
  • Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste 106
  • Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste 126
  • IV. Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic 126
  • The Problem of a Standard of Taste 142
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