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Full Idea
The rise and fall (as we presently perceive them) of aesthetics have been contemporaneous with the rise and fall of Romanticism.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetics has risen and fallen with Romanticism
Source
Roger Scruton (Recent Aesthetics in England and America [1980], p.3)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'The Aesthetic Understanding' [Methuen 1983], p.3
A Reaction
Maybe it started a little before Romanticism, as part of the Englightenment aim of being rational about everything, and maybe it survives Romanticism because we want to be scientific about everything.
| 8063 | Baumgarten founded aesthetics in 1750 [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy] |
| 12157 | Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel gave it content [Kant, by Scruton] |
| 18549 | Nineteenth century aesthetics focused on art rather than nature (thanks to Hegel) [Hegel, by Scruton] |
| 21372 | Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will [Schopenhauer] |
| 23198 | Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience [Nietzsche] |
| 12156 | Aesthetics has risen and fallen with Romanticism [Scruton] |
| 8108 | Aesthetics presupposes a distinctive sort of experience, and a unified essence for art [Gardner] |
| 20327 | Modern attention has moved from the intrinsic properties of art to its relational properties [Lamarque/Olson] |
| 20416 | By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp] |