Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, credited to Benedetto Croce, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce. (Translated by Douglas Ainslie.) Read in English by Lisa Reichert; Sharon Greer; Will Irace; MaryAnn; KHand; Larry Wilson; Philip Panos; Gillian Schnurr One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influential ideas of aesthetics. Croce defines art in terms of intuition and expression, thus replacing beauty as the primary criterion for aesthetic evaluation. - Summary by Mary J

Recording facts

• Recording title: Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
• Author credits: Benedetto Croce
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 11:54:56

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• culture
• literary criticism
• aesthetics
• philosophy of art

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Introduction — 35:25
2. 01 - Intuition and Expression — 31:30
3. 02 - Intuition and Art — 26:58
4. 03 - Art and Philosophy — 27:23
5. 04 - Historicism and Intellectualism in Aesthetic — 18:58
6. 05 - Analogous Errors in Historic and in Logic — 19:58
7. 06 - Theoretic and Practical Activity — 19:02
8. 07 - Analogy Between the Theoretic and the Practical — 15:46
9. 08 - Exclusion of Other Spiritual Forms — 14:40
10. 09 - Indivisibility of Expression into Modes or Grades and Critique of Rhetoric — 17:21
11. 10 - Aesthetic Feelings and the Distinction between the Beautiful and the Ugly — 18:59
12. 11 - Critique of Aesthetic Hedonism — 11:56
13. 12 - The Aesthetic of the Sympathetic and Pseudo-Aesthetic Concepts — 16:19
14. 13 - The So-Called Physically Beautiful in Nature and in Art — 25:09
15. 14 - Errors Arising from the Confusion between Physic and Aesthetic — 17:48
16. 15 - The Activity of Externalization. Technique and the Theory of the Arts — 18:29
17. 16 - Taste and the Reproduction of Art — 25:17
18. 17 - The History of Literature and of Art — 29:57
19. 18 - Conclusion: Identity of Linguistic and Aesthetic — 31:15
20. 19 - Historical Summary, Part 1 — 30:53
21. 20 - Historical Summary, Part 2 — 25:18
22. 21 - Historical Summary, Part 3 — 28:52
23. 22 - Historical Summary, Part 4 — 33:54
24. 23 - Historical Summary, Part 5 — 27:05

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