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IMITATION AND SOCIETY
THE PERSISTENCE OF MIMESIS IN THE AESTHETICS OF BURKE, HOGARTH, AND KANT

By:

Tom Huhn

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0271029129

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9780271029122

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Publisher:

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 March, 2006

Series:

Literature and Philosophy

Pages:

224

Synopsis:

This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgement. Since the idea of mimesis was taken to apply only in the relation of art to nature, it was judged to be too limited when the focus of aesthetics changed to questions about the constitution of individual subjects in regard to taste. Tom Huhn argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgement and taste. Mimesis also thereby became enmeshed in the ideas of sociality contained, often only implicitly, within the new accounts of aesthetic judgement.

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Pennsylvania State University Press

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