A History of Western Aesthetics (Volume 2): Renaissance to Enlightenment Aesthetics

Author: Peng Lixun
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: The four-volume history of Western aesthetics is edited by Ru Xin, with key contributors such as Zhou Guoping, Ling Jiye, and Jin Huimin being leading scholars at the forefront of current academia. The theoretical and historical scope of this book originates from ancient Greece, passes through ancient Rome, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and extends to modern times. Over a span of two thousand years, its emergence, development, divergence, reversals, collisions, and integrations have succeeded generation after generation, presenting distinctive features that contrast sharply with Eastern aesthetics. All of these are the main subjects of this four-volume study. Its publication provides a genuine and objective, relatively complete historical resource for innovative research in contemporary Western philosophy, aesthetics, literary theory, and social science theory in China. It offers historically significant positive aesthetic experiences for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and is a high-quality academic work. This book is the second volume, covering the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.