Reading David Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste'

by Babette Babich (Editor)

Overview

This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history of science. This much needed volume on David Hume will enrich scholars across all levels of university study and research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110585346
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	05/06/2019
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Babette Babich, Fordham University, New York City, USA.

Table of Contents

I Editor's Introduction

Signatures and Taste: Hume's Mortal Leavings and Lucian Babette Babich 3

II "Of the Standard of Taste"

Of the Standard of Taste David Hume 25

III Of Taste and Standards

Hume's Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle Peter Kivy 43

Hume and the Standard of Taste Christopher MacLachlan 53

Taste and Order Roger Scruton 67

General Rules and Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" Timothy M. Costelloe 77

Gendered Concepts and Hume's Standard of Taste Carolyn Korsmeyer 97

IV Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic

Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste Roger A. Shiner 117

The Problem of a Standard of Taste Dabney Townsend 133

Taste and Civil Society Howard Caygill 177

Nietzsche's Aesthetic Science and Hume's Standard of Taste Babette Babich 213

V Comparisons, Art, Anatomies

The Comparison as the Standardization of Aesthetic Norms Andrej Démuth Slávka Démuthová 249

Plato and Hume's Philosophy of Art Bernard Freydberg 263

"Cloathing the Parts again": The Ghost of the Treatise in the Standard of Taste Emilio Mazza 281

Notes on Contributors 301

Research and Citation Bibliography 305

Subject Index 323

Name Index 329

Editorial Reviews

"This book edited by Babette Babich is a welcome addition to scholarship focusing on Hume’s famous piece on aesthetics." Stephanie Ross in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 04.06.2022, https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/reading-david-humes-of-the-standard-of-taste/

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