A Comprehensive History of Western Aesthetics, Volume 4: German Classical Aesthetics

Author: Cao Junfeng, Zhu Liyuan, Zhang Yuneng
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Publish Date: 1999-11-01
Features: German classical aesthetics, as a dialectical and humanistic philosophical aesthetics, ultimately completed and perfected. It is a synthesis of various aesthetic trends since ancient Greece, particularly integrating the rationalist and empiricist schools of the Enlightenment, and developed and refined the categories, concepts, and theoretical systems of aesthetics. It reflects the historical evolution of aesthetics from "natural ontology" through "epistemology" to "humanistic ontology" (social ontology). German classical aesthetics, as a dialectical and humanistic philosophical aesthetics, ultimately completed and perfected. It is a synthesis of various aesthetic trends since ancient Greece, particularly integrating the rationalist and empiricist schools of the Enlightenment, and developed and refined the categories, concepts, and theoretical systems of aesthetics. It reflects the historical evolution of aesthetics from "natural ontology" through "epistemology" to "humanistic ontology" (social ontology).