Single Idea 12156

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics]

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 Reference

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.