Emilia Dilke on Aesthetics
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/183934Identifikátory
DOI: 10.33134/eeja.328
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- Číslo 1 [7]
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2023-03-15Nakladatel
Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaHelsinki University Press
Helsinki
Praha
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Estetika: The European Journal of Aestheticse-ISSN: 2571-0915
Rok vydání periodika: 2023
Ročník periodika: 2023
Číslo periodika: 1
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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Klíčová slova (anglicky)
Emilia Dilke, aestheticism, historicism, history of women philosophers, nineteenth-century, British aestheticsThis article contributes to recovering the history of women’s contributions to aesthetics by examining Emilia Dilke’s writings on aesthetics from the mid-1860s to the early 1870s. Initially, Dilke took the historicist view that artworks are inescapably the products and expressions of their social and historical circumstances and that art is better, as art, the more it distils its time. Dilke also thought that in the modern world art had separated inexorably from morality and religion. On that basis she came to endorse aestheticism, arguing that art should be made for beauty’s sake and not subordinated to moral purposes. However, this ultimately led to some tensions between her aestheticism and historicism. In the end she resolved these tensions by distinguishing between various kinds of value, or uses, that artworks can have. The best artworks have properly aesthetic value and transcend history, whereas the majority of artworks have only historical value as expressions of their eras. Overall, Dilke put forward a forceful defence of aestheticism and negotiated between aestheticism and historicism in a unique way. She deserves recognition as a significant female figure in the history of aesthetics.
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