A History of Six Ideas An Essay in Aesthetics
The history of aesthetics, like the histories of other sciences, may be treated in a two-fold manner: as the history of the men who created the field of study, or as the history of the questions that have been raised and resolved in the course of its purs
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MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES VOLUME 5
A HISTORY OF SIX IDEAS-AN ESSAY IN AESTHETICS W. TATARKIEWICZ
Editor: JAN T. J. SRZEDNICKI Assistant editor: L Y NNE M. B R 0 UGH TON Editorial Advisory Council: R. M. Chisholm, Brown University, Rhode Island. Mats Furberg, Goteborg University. D. A. T. Gasking, University of Melbourne. H. L. A. Hart, University College, Oxford. S. Korner, University of Bristol, Yale University. T. Kotarbinski, Warsaw. H. J. McCloskey, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne. J. Passmore, Australian National University, Canberra. C. Perelman, Free University of Brussels. A. Quinton, New College, Oxford. Nathan Rotenstreich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Franco Spisani, Centro Superiore di Logica e Scienze, Comparate, Bologna. W. Tatarkiewicz, Warsaw. R. Ziedins, Waikato University, New Zealand.
Communications to be addressed to the Editor, c/o Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia.
A HISTORY OF SIX IDEAS AN ESSAY IN AESTHETICS
by
WLADYSLAW TATARKIEWICZ University of Warsaw Polish Academy of Sciences
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Tatarkiewicz, Wladyslaw. A history of six ideas. (Melbourne international philosophy series; v·5) Translation of Dzieje szeSciu poj~c. Bibliography: p. Includes index. I. Aesthetics-History. 3. Art-PhilosophyHistory. I. Title. II. Series. BH8I.T3413 111.8'5 79-16534 ISBN-I 3:978-94-009-8807-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-8805-7
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Translated from: Dzieje szelciu pojlJc, first published in Polish by Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa 1975.
Translated from the Polish by Christopher Kasparek except Sections IV-VII of Chapter 1, Sections I, II of Chapter 2, Sections I-XI of Chapter 3, Sections I-IX of Chapter 4, Sections I-IV of Chapter 6, Sections I-VI of Chapter 7, Section I of Chapter 9-whicb have been based on the previously published texts, with the permission of the publishers. Ccpyright © by PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers-Warszawa IQ80. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition I Q80 All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form.
TABLE OF CON TEN T S
List of illustrations
IX
Foreword
XI
Introduction Chapter one. Art: History of the concept I. The early concept of art II. The transformation in modern times Ill.
