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Reading David Humeʼs “Of the Standard of Taste” Reading David Humeʼs “Of the Standard of Taste” Edited by Babette Babich ISBN 978-3-11-058534-6 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-058557-5 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-058550-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018962692 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck Cover image: Jan Vermeer van Delft (1632-1675), The Glass of Wine. WikimediaCommons, Public Domain. www.degruyter.com Acknowledgments Thereareasmany,ifnotmoredebtsaccumulatedinthecourseofeditingacol- lective volume than in the writingof a monograph. Manyof these debts are el- lipticaloneswhichmakesthemnolessurgentorreal,evendebtstowhatis,ap- parently, absent: in this case, referringtomissingchaptersbothwith respect to Hume’soriginalplans topublish FiveDissertations(reducedintheendtofour) andwithrespecttothemissingchaptersinthisvolume.Thecurrentvolumewas conceivedtoaddressconcernsrelatedtothisabsenceandthatalsomeansthatit isdedicatednottosettlingquestions,asinmanybookcollectionsthatmeanto be definitive or ultimate but rather to inspiring further discussion. Hume is a key name in aesthetics and philosophy of art, especially in uni- versitycourses.Here,IamgratefultomystudentsoneverylevelatFordhamUni- versity,undergraduate and graduate, as well as the students at Fordham’s Col- lege at 60 ‒ Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus being located at the intersection of 60th Street and Columbus Avenue in New York City – as well as to my students at the School of Visual Arts and at Juilliard where I have also had productive discussions with faculty, including Tom Huhn. I am espe- ciallygratefultothelatePeterKivywhocorrespondedwithmeaboutthisproject inadditiontothelateAnnetteBaier.IthankEmilioMazzaandRogerScrutonin very different ways for correspondence and personal engagement. There were other scholars I had hoped to have on board as contributors to this book which technical issues prevented. I thank them for their inspiration. I thank Christoph Schirmer and I am also grateful to Anett Rehner and to Tim Vogel at de Gruyter. Thanks to the British Museum for providing the image used in Babette Ba- bich’s “Editor’sIntroduction” of the illuminatedversion of AlbrechtDürer, Alle- gorie der Beredsamkeit. Thanks are due to the British Journal of Aesthetics for permission to reprint Peter Kivy’s “Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle.” TheeditorsofHumeStudiesgraciouslyallowedthereprintingofChristopher MacLachlan: “Hume and the Standard of Taste,” Hume Studies. OxfordUniversityPressgrantedpermissiontoreprintaselectionfromRoger Scruton’s Beauty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Permission from the editors of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism is gratefullyacknowledgedtoreprintRogerShiner’schapter,“HumeandtheCaus- al Theoryof Taste.” ThankstoPennStateUniversityPressforpermissiontoreprintCarolynKors- meyer’s chapter, “Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste,” from https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110585575-001 VI Acknowledgments PeggyZeglinBrandandCarolynKorsmeyer(Eds.)FeminismandTraditioninAes- thetics (State College: Penn State University Press,1994). Taylor and Francis Group granted permission to use the final chapter from Dabney Townsend, Taste and Sentiment (London: Routledge, 2001). Wileygrantedpermissiontoreprintselectionsofachapter,“TasteandCivil Society” from Howard Caygill’s Art of Judgment (Oxford: Blackwell,1989). SUNYPressgenerouslygrantedpermissiontoreprintachapterfromBernard Freydberg’sbook,DavidHume:PlatonicPhilosopher,ContinentalAncestor(Alba- ny: State Universityof New York Press, 2012). Table of Contents I Editor’s Introduction Babette Babich Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and Lucian 3 II “Of the Standard of Taste” David Hume Of the Standard of Taste 25 III Of Taste and Standards Peter Kivy Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle 43 Christopher MacLachlan Humeand the Standard of Taste 53 Roger Scruton Taste and Order 67 Timothy M. Costelloe General Rules and Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” 77 Carolyn Korsmeyer Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste 97 IV Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic Roger A. Shiner Humeand the Causal Theory of Taste 117 VIII TableofContents Dabney Townsend The Problem of a Standard of Taste 133 Howard Caygill Taste and Civil Society 177 Babette Babich Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Science and Hume’s Standard of Taste 213 V Comparisons, Art, Anatomies Andrej Démuth and Slávka Démuthová The Comparison as the Standardization of Aesthetic Norms 249 Bernard Freydberg Plato and Hume’s Philosophy of Art 263 Emilio Mazza “Cloathing the Parts again”: The Ghost of the Treatise in the Standard of Taste 281 Notes on Contributors 301 Research and Citation Bibliography 305 Subject Index 323 Name Index 329 I Editor’s Introduction
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