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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

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Philosophy & Psychology

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

Benedetto Croce and Douglas Ainslie

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Art is expression, Benedetto Croce declared, and with that stroke rewrote aesthetics. His Aesthetic argues that intuition and expression are a single act, that the science of art and the science of language are one, and that beauty belongs to human activity rather than to things. The theory that made him Europe's most discussed critic. Grapple with it at the source.

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  1. 1AESTHETIC AS SCIENCE OF EXPRESSION
  2. 2TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF BENEDETTO CROCE BY
  3. 3THE AESTHETIC IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE MEMORY OF HIS PARENTS PASQUALE AND LUISA SIPARI AND OF HIS SISTER MARIA NOTE
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5INTRODUCTION
  6. 6INTRODUCTION
  7. 7I
  8. 8II
  9. 9III
  10. 10IV
  11. 11V
  12. 12VI
  13. 13VII
  14. 14VIII
  15. 15IX
  16. 16X
  17. 17XI
  18. 18XII

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