Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Editions and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Individualism and the ‘aesthetic philosopher’
- 2 Empiricism and the Imperilled Self
- 3 Subjectivity and Imagination: From Hume to Kant via Berkeley
- 4 Metaphysics: Pater's Failed Attempt at Atheism
- 5 Sense and Sensuality: Caught between Venus and Dionysus
- 6 Pater's Copernican Revolution: The Desiring, Dying Body
- 7 Evolution and the ‘Species’: The Individual in Deep Time
- 8 The Moment and the Aesthetic Imagination
- 9 Ethics, Society and the Aesthetic Individual
- 10 Conclusion: ‘the elusive inscrutable mistakable self’
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Editions and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Individualism and the ‘aesthetic philosopher’
- 2 Empiricism and the Imperilled Self
- 3 Subjectivity and Imagination: From Hume to Kant via Berkeley
- 4 Metaphysics: Pater's Failed Attempt at Atheism
- 5 Sense and Sensuality: Caught between Venus and Dionysus
- 6 Pater's Copernican Revolution: The Desiring, Dying Body
- 7 Evolution and the ‘Species’: The Individual in Deep Time
- 8 The Moment and the Aesthetic Imagination
- 9 Ethics, Society and the Aesthetic Individual
- 10 Conclusion: ‘the elusive inscrutable mistakable self’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Walter PaterIndividualism and Aesthetic Philosophy, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2013