07.10.2019
Romantic aesthetics and the transition to Modernism: Diderot, Wordsworth and Baudelaire
Denis Diderot was known in his lifetime primarily for being the editor of the Encyclopédie. He is perhaps equally known in our times for his art criticism, which elegantly unites a philosophical preoccupation with understanding the nature of beauty with a defense of art that elevates the mind, not just the senses. In describing aesthetic […]