The Genealogy of Aesthetics

The author tells a novel and exciting history. They are as follows: the Homeric pagan values platonic backwash were lessons of secularization of Christian theology and Kant carried on this tradition correction; Hegel predicted that spirit finally overcame body when it came to End of Art; Heidegger, Derrida and his followers' seeking revived for aesthetic and ascetic ideal. The author criticizes traditional and post-modern views and presents a new, pro-sense theory of aesthetics influenced by Nietzsche to a large extent on the basis of cognitive science of Neo-Darwinism. As a profound work full of argument, this book is a brand new start of art-thinking, which cannot be neglected by any works in Aesthetics.