One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influential ideas of aesthetics. Croce defines art in terms of intuition and expression, thus replacing beauty as the primary criterion for aesthetic evaluation. - Summary by Mary J
Chapters
1 Introduction 35 min 2 Intuition and Expression 32 min 3 Intuition and Art 27 min 4 Art and Philosophy 27 min 5 Historicism and Intellectualism in Aesthetic 19 min 6 Analogous Errors in Historic and in Logic 20 min 7 Theoretic and Practical Activity 19 min 8 Analogy Between the Theoretic and the Practical 16 min 9 Exclusion of Other Spiritual Forms 15 min 10 Indivisibility of Expression into Modes or Grades and Critique of Rhetoric 17 min 11 Aesthetic Feelings and the Distinction between the Beautiful and the Ugly 19 min 12 Critique of Aesthetic Hedonism 12 min 13 The Aesthetic of the Sympathetic and Pseudo-Aesthetic Concepts 16 min 14 The So-Called Physically Beautiful in Nature and in Art 25 min 15 Errors Arising from the Confusion between Physic and Aesthetic 18 min 16 The Activity of Externalization. Technique and the Theory of the Arts 18 min 17 Taste and the Reproduction of Art 25 min 18 The History of Literature and of Art 30 min 19 Conclusion: Identity of Linguistic and Aesthetic 31 min 20 Historical Summary, Part 1 31 min 21 Historical Summary, Part 2 25 min 22 Historical Summary, Part 3 29 min 23 Historical Summary, Part 4 34 min 24 Historical Summary, Part 5 27 min 25 Historical Summary, Part 6 28 min 26 Historical Summary, Part 7 24 min 27 Historical Summary, Part 8 28 min 28 Appendix, Part 1 28 min 29 Appendix, Part 2 29 min 30 Appendix, Part 3 6 min
