The History of European Aesthetics
Estrada-Herrero, David / Sánchez-Naffziger, Rebecca
First published in Spanish in 1988, David Estrada-Herrero's monumental survey of European aesthetics is translated into English for the first time. Moving across two thousand years of thought and arriving in the 20th century where concepts of ugliness dominate, the story begins in ancient Greece with reflections on beauty by Homer, Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. Asking what causes changes in taste and judgement, Estrada introduces the traditio...