Aesthetic as science of expression and general linguistic

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Introduction . xv

THEORY

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Corollaries and explanations — Identity of art and of intuitive know¬ ledge — No specific difference — No difference of intensity — Dif¬ ference extensive and empirical — Artistic genius — Content and form in ^Esthetic — Critique of the imitation of nature and of the artistic illusion — Critique of art conceived as a sentimental, not a theoretic fact — The origin of ^Esthetic, and sentiment — Critique of the theory of aesthetic senses — Unity and indivisi¬ bility of the work of art — Art as deliverer ....

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Indissolubility of intellective and of intuitive knowledge — Critique of the negations of this thesis — Art and science — Content and form : another meaning. Prose and poetry — The relation of first and second degree — Inexistence of other cognoscitive forms — Historicity — Identity and difference in respect of art — His¬ torical criticism — Historical scepticism — Philosophy as perfect science. The so-called natural sciences, and their limits — The phenomenon and the noumenon ...... 36

IV Historicism And Intellectualism In ^esthetic

Critique of the verisimilar and of naturalism — Critique of ideas in art, of art as thesis, and of the typical — Critique of the symbol and of the allegory — Critique of the theory of artistic and literary categories — Errors derived from this theory in judgments on art — Empirical meaning of the divisions of the categories . 53

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ANALOGOUS ERRORS IN HISTORY AND IN LOGIC

Critique of the philosophy of History — .Esthetic invasions of Logic — Logic in its essence — Distinction between logical and non-logical judgments — The syllogism — False Logic and true .Esthetic — Logic reformed ....... 65