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Jean-Baptiste Du Bos' Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, first published in French in 1719, is one of the seminal works of modern aesthetics. Du Bos rejected the seventeenth-century view that works of art are assessed by reason. Instead, he believed, audience members have sentiments in response to artworks. Their sentiments are fainter versions of those they would feel in response to actually seeing what the work of art imitates. Du Bos was influenced by John Locke's empiricism and, in turn, had a major impact on virtually every major eighteenth-century contributor to philosophy of art, including Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Herder, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kames, Gerard, and Hume. This is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of the Critical Reflections in any language.

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James O. Young, FRSC, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria and author of Art and Knowledge (2001), Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (2008), Critique of Pure Music (2014), Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts (2020) and other works. Margaret Cameron is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Previously she was Canada Research Chair in the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Victoria in Canada.

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