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tan cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. taped a bit on the rear panel long ago, not price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first english edition. first printing (nap). xxx+386p. + 108 glossy b&w photo plates. index of names. philosophy. art history. ancient history. archaeology. ancient greece. ancient india. renaissance art. ~ Stanistaw Ossowski (1897~1963), outstanding Polish scholar, philosopher and sociologist, professor and for many years director of the Department of Sociology at Warsaw University. Principle works: "Foundations of Aesthetics" (1933), "Social Ties and Blood Inheritance" (1939), "Class Structure in Social Consciousness" (1957) translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, "On the Characteristics of Social Sciences" (1962) and "Some Problems in Social Psychology" (1967). A complete edition of Stanislaw Ossowskl's works (including articles, publications and bibliography) has been published: vols.I and II in 1966, vols. III and IV in 1967, vol, V in 1968, vol. VI in 1970 by Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw. "The values ascribed to objects with respect to their duties are democratic: everyone has the right to pronounce them. The values ascribed with respect to artism are aristocratic; it is the connoisseurs who determine them. In general, we evaluate nature only with respect to the experiences it evokes; this is why there are no professionals on the aesthetic values of nature, while there are professionals on the aesthetic values of art." "[ . ] Nonetheless, these two conceptions of value are usually not distinguished, either in current appraisals or even in general aesthetic considerations. In aesthetic judgements both points of view very often collaborate and it is only in the motives of appraisal that the main emphasis rests, at one time upon the emotions felt in viewing a work, at another time on the creator's artism. In contemporary European cultural milieux, aesthetic value is a collage of concepts.". Seller Inventory # 6041401
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