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| Translator's Preface | vii |
| Prefatory Essay by the Translator | xiii |
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| CHAPTER I. |
| The Range of Æsthetic defined, and some Objections against the Philosophy of Art refuted (1-25). |
| [?. | Æsthetic confined to Beauty of Art | 2 |
| ?. | Does Art merit Scientific Treatment? | 5 |
| ?. | Is Scientific Treatment appropriate to Art? | 8 |
| ?. | Answer to ?. | 13 |
| ?. | Answer to ?.] | 20 |
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| CHAPTER II. |
| Methods of Science Applicable to Beauty and Art (26-42). |
| [1. | Empirical Method—Art-scholarship | 27 |
| (a) Its Range | 27 |
| (b) It generates Rules and Theories | 28 |
| (c) The Rights of Genius | 38 |
| 2. | Abstract Reflection | 40 |
| 3. | The Philosophical Conception of Artistic Beauty, general notion of] | 41 |
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| CHAPTER III. |
| The Philosophical Conception of Artistic Beauty, beginning with Current Ideas of Art (43-105). |
| Part I.—The Work of Art as Made and as Sensuous | 43-78 |
| 1. | Work of Art as Product of Human Activity | 48 |
| [(a) Conscious Production by Rule | 48 |
| (b) Artistic Inspiration | 50 |
| (c) Dignity of Production by Man | 54 |
| (d) Man's Need to produce Works of Art] | 57 |
| 2. | Work of Art as addressed to Man's Sense | 60-78 |
| [(a) Object of Art—Pleasant Feeling? | 60 |
| (b) Feeling of Beauty—Taste | 63 |
| (c) Art-scholarship | 65 |
| (d) Profounder Consequences of Sensuous Nature of Art | 66 |
| (?) Relations of the Sensuous to the Mind | 67 |
| (??) Desire | 68 |
| (??) Theory | 70 |
| (??) Sensuous as Symbol of Spiritual | 72 |
| (?) The Sensuous Element, how Present in the Artist | 74 |
| (?) The Content of Art Sensuous] | 78 |
| Part II.—The End of Art. |
| 3. | [The Interest or End of Art | (79-106) |
| (a) Imitation of Nature? | 79 |
| (?) Mere Repetition of Nature is— | 79 |
| (??) Superfluous |
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