Croce Benedetto. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

New York: BiblioLife, 2008. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0554322870; ISBN13: 978-0554322872.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.Theory
Intuition and expression
Intuition and art
Art and philosophy
Historicism and intellectualism in aesthetic
Analogous errors in history and in logic
Theoretic and practical activity
Analogy between the theoretic and the practical
Exclusion of other spiritual forms
Indivisibility of expression into modes or grades and critique of rhetoric
Aesthetic sentiments and the distinction between the beautiful and the ugly
Critique of aesthetic hedonism
The aesthetic of the sympathetic and pseudo-aesthetic concepts
The so-called physically beautiful in nature and in art
Errors arising from the confusion between physic and aesthetic
The activity of externalization. technique and the theory of the arts
Taste and the reproduction of art
The history of literature and of artConclusion: identity of linguistic and aesthetic