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THEDEM○CRATIC AGE  \nLU C FE R R Y  \nTRANSLATED BY ROBERT DE LOAIZA  \n乃H151 FH713199  \nLuc Ferry is professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and the University ofCaen.His many books include the three-volume History of Philosophy and(with Alain Renaut)Heidegger and Modernity,both published in English bythe University of Chicago Press.  \nThe University of Chicago Press,Chicago 60637The University of Chicago Press,Ltd.,London◎1993 by The University of ChicagoAll rights reserved.Published 1993Printed in the United States of America0201009998979695949312345  \nISBN:0-226-24459-8(cloth)  \nOriginally published in Paris as Homo Aestheticus:L'invention du gout àl'agedémocratique,Editions Grasset &Fasquelle,1990.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nFerry,Luc.  \n[Homo aestheticus.English]  \nHomo aestheticus:the invention of taste in the democratic age/Luc Ferry;translated by Robert de Loaiza.  \np.cm.  \nIncludes index.  \n1.Aesthetics,Modern—18th century.2.Aesthetics,Modern—19thcentury.3.Aesthetics,Modern—20th century.4.Kant,Immanuel,1724-1804—Aesthetics.5.Hegel,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,  \n1770-1831—Aesthetics.6.Nietzsche,Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900—Aesthetics.7.Subjectivity.I.Title.BH151.F4713199311′.85'0903—dc2093-4910  \nCIP  \n◎The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the AmericanNational Standardfor Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed LibraryMaterials,ANSI Z39.48-1984.  \nCONTENT S  \nPreface  \nvii  \nIntroduction  \n1  \nONE The Revolution of Taste 7  \nTWO Between Heart and Reason 33  \nTH REE The Kantian Moment:The Subject of Reflection  \n77  \nFOU R(The Hegelian Moment:The Absolute Subject or theDeath of Art114  \nFIVEThe Nietzschean Moment;The Shattered Subject andthe Onset of Contemporary Aesthetics148  \nSIX The Decline of the Avant-Gardes:Postmodernity192  \nSEVEN The Problem of Ethics in an Age of Aesthetics 246  \nNotes 263Index 273  \nT  \nHIS WORK AIMS AT RETRACING the great conceptual momentsof a history of democratic individualism or modern subjectivity.Forreasons Igo intoin the first chapter,the field of aesthetics is the one inwhich,even today,the sediments of such a history are most visible andrichest in meaning.I had to hold on to both ends of a somewhat fragilechain:on the one hand I had to recapture the definitions of subjectivitywhere they had been most strongly formulated—that is,in philoso-phy—without,on the other,giving up the interpretation of certain as-pects of a discipline,aesthetics,happily inseparable from art's concretehistory.The problem lies in the fact that philosophy,unlike the histori-cal sciences,does not belong to what is usually called“general culture.”Art lovers,even erudite ones,are not always familiar with the works ofLeibniz,Baumgarten,Kant,or Hegel.It would be pointless to believethat this obstacle has to do with the form or,as is sometimes imagined,with the “jargon”in which these paths of thinking are enmeshed.It goesdeeper:reflection on culture does not belong integrally within culture.It supposes a distance always difficult to traverse and reduce.  \nI have tried to put forth this work's theses in a nontechnical way(chapter 1);the same with the main passages devoted to clarifying thetwo chief moments of modern aesthetics:the initial quarrel betweenheart and reason (beginning of chapter 2)and the—no doubt provi-sional—end of this history(chapter 6).These sections can be read rela-tively independently from the rest of the book.Their connection to asystematic history of the subject is the only thing that cannot be per-ceived without an incursion into philosophy.  \n# INTR ODU CTION\n\nASPECTER HAUNTS CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT:the spec-ter of the subject.  \nEveryone knows or senses it today,even outside the limits of pro-fessional philosophy.\"The death of man,\"much talked about in the19","cbCaivVaRn4MSkVH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivVaRn4MSkVH","pdf",24693092,285,"English","# Preface\n# 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