The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

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Now reissued with substantial new material The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson and its huge influence on British aesthetics. Peter Kivys book is a seminal work on early modern aesthetics and has been much in demand since going out of print some years ago; this new edition brings the book up to date with the addition of eight essays that Kivy has written on the subject since 1976.