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42The aesthetics of the invisible: George Berkeley and the modern aestheticsHistory of European Ideas 48 (6): 731-743. 2022.ABSTRACT George Berkeley is usually not discussed in the canonical histories of modern aesthetics. Similarly, Berkeley scholars do not seem to have paid attention to his possible contribution to modern aesthetics. Berkeley exploited certain theoretical potentials of the emerging aesthetic experience that was invented and formulated especially by his contemporaries like Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and Lord Shaftesbury. He applied these elements in shaping a theologico-aesthetic language in the…Read more
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37Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 61 (4): 602-605. 2021.A review of Karl Axelsson's "Political Aesthetics" (Bloomsbury Academic. 2019).
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33Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and his Legacy, ed. Endre SzécsényiAberdeen University Press. 2020.On 18–19 May 2018, a symposium was held in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Ronald W. Hepburn (1927–2008). The speakers at this event discussed Hepburn’s oeuvre from several perspectives. For this book, the collection of the revised versions of their talks has been supplemented by the papers of other scholars who were unable to attend the symposium itself. Thus this volume contains contribution…Read more
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26The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland by Simon Grote (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 59 (3): 345-348. 2019.A review of Simon Grote's The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory cambridge university press. 2017. pp. 308. £75.00..
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24Remarks upon the Aesthetics of the Night SkyEspes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 10 (1): 51-63. 2021.This essay begins with some observations on the main features and availability of the aesthetic experience of the night sky to us. In the second part, the aesthetics of the starry sky is interpreted in terms of time experience, complementing the usual approach in terms of immense space. These remarks on this broad and abundant subject can partly be linked to the intellectual historical interpretation of the birth of modern aesthetics, and partly to the vital discourse of environmental aesthetics…Read more
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22Introduction. The Birth of the DisciplineAesthetic Investigations 4 (2): 140-143. 2021.Introduction to the special issue, "The Birth of the Discipline", guest edited by Endre Szécsényi with Rob van Gerwen, of Aesthetic Investigations.
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21The regard of the first man: on Joseph Addison’s aesthetic categoriesHistory of European Ideas 43 (6): 582-597. 2017.This study examines the sources that could inspire Joseph Addison’s influential ‘aesthetic’ triad of ‘great’, ‘uncommon’, and ‘beautiful’, as elaborated in his essay-series The Pleasures of the Imagination in 1712. After identifying a philological problem in the interpretative tradition which gives rise to Addison’s triad from a section of Ps Longinus’ Peri Hypsous, further three seventeenth-century texts – Thomas Burnet’s Telluris theoria sacra, Dominique Bouhours’ Les entretiens d’Ariste et d’…Read more
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20Gustus Spiritualis: Remarks on the Emergence of Modern AestheticsEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 51 (1): 62-85. 2014.The article considers the concept of gustus spiritualis, in particular its possible historical connection with (aesthetic) taste in the seventeenth century. By ‘aesthetic’, I mean a radically modern phenomenon, attitude, sensibility, and so forth, that is, a new type of experience. Its discourse has many keywords; one of them is taste, an inner faculty by which its possessor is able to make sharp and proper distinctions, and simultaneously to enjoy fine delights. Here, I am obliged to confine my…Read more
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15A philosophy of beauty: Shaftesbury on nature, virtue, and art A philosophy of beauty: Shaftesbury on nature, virtue, and art, by Michael B. Gill, Princeton, Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2022, 238 pp., £35(hb), ISBN 978-0-691-22661-3 (review)Intellectual History Review 34 (2): 501-504. 2024.Michael B. Gill’s new book on the third Earl of Shaftesbury’s philosophy of beauty gathers his articles on the same topic of the last few years, adds new chapters to them, and gives an elegant fini...
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14Gustus Spiritualis: Remarks on the Emergence of Modern AestheticsEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 51 (1): 62. 2020.
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7The volume "Beauty and Freedom" contains five papers in Hungarian: “On Aesthetic Freedom: Wit and Humour in the Augustan Age”, “Aphrodite and Eros: Eroticism and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century”, “Beautiful Image and Sublime Appeal: Berkeley and Burke on Language”, “Beauty and Freedom: John Macmurry”, and “Freedom or Beauty: Hannah Arendt”.
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2Wit and Humour in the Augustan AgeHungarian Journal of English and American Studies 13 (1-2): 79-92. 2007.Reflections upon wit and humour in the writings of Sir Richard Blackmore, Joseph Addison and Lord Shaftesbury.
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1This monograph analyses the aesthetic dimensions of politics and political philosophy in 18th-century British thought, by focusing on Lord Shaftesbury, David Hume and Edmund Burke.
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1Francis Hutcheson and the Emerging Aesthetic ExperienceJournal of Scottish Thought 7 171-209. 2016.
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“The Delight and Torment of the World” – Aesthetics and its History (review)Canadian Journal of History 51 333-344. 2016.A review-essay of P. Guyer's "A History of Modern Aesthetics" (CUP, 2014).
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Empiricist Devotions. Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England by Courtney Weiss Smith (review)Canadian Journal of History 52 596-598. 2017.A review of C. W. Smith's "Empiricist Devotion".
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Remarks on Hannah Arendt’s Political PhenomenologyIn Michael Staudigl & Ludger Hagedorn (eds.), Über Zivilisation und Differenz: Beiträge zu einer politischen Phänomenologie Europas, Königshausen & Neumann. pp. 263-275. 2008.A paper on Hannah Arendt’s lifelong project of the establishment of “a phenomenology with human plurality and human interaction as its focal point", with critical reflections upon her insights concerning the emergence of "the social" in the mirror of some eighteenth-century theories of human sociability.
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Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe by David L. Marshall (review)Canadian Journal of History 47 637-639. 2012.A review of D. L. Marshall's "Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe" (CUP, 2010).
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The British Aesthetic Tradition. From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein by Timothy M. Costelloe. (review)Canadian Journal of History 49 508-510. 2014.A review of T. M. Costelloe's "The British Aesthetic Tradition. From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein" (CUP, 2013)
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Aspects of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Politics and Religion, eds. Ferenc Hörcher and Endre Szécsényi (edited book)Akadémiai Kiadó. 2004.Introductory essay / Peter Jones -- The usefulness of the arts and the humanities : the case of Descartes / Gábor Boros -- Roads of remembrance : the treatment of imagination and memory in Gerard's Essay on genius / Zsolt Komáromy -- Diderot's untimeliness / László Kisbali ; transl. Márton Dornbach -- Melody vs. harmony : Rousseau, or, The aesthetics of vowels / Mária Ludassy ; transl. Zsolt Komáromy -- Judgement and taste : from Shakespeare to Shaftesbury / Ferenc Hörcher -- Lord Shaftesbury's …Read more
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