Gerard, Alexander (1728–95)
DOI
10.4324/9780415249126-DB032-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DB032-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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List of works
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Gerard, A. (1759) An Essay on Taste, London: Miller; 3rd edn repr. Gainsville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1963. (Gerard’s prize essay for The Edinburgh Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Sciences, Manufactures and Agriculture. The Essay on Taste shifts internal sense toward a theory of imagination and association. Includes a useful introduction by W.J. Hipple, Jr.) |
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Gerard, A. (1774) An Essay on Genius, London: Strahan; repr. ed.
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Fabian, Munich: Fink. (Less widely read because it fails to break new ground. Continues Gerard’s emphasis on imagination and association as the leading concepts of an aesthetic psychology.) |
References and further reading
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Dickie, G. (1996) The Century of Taste, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (A defence of Hume against the forms of association advocated by Alison and Gerard.) |
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Kivy, P. (1976) The Seventh Sense, New York: Burt Franklin. (Traces the concept of internal sense through eighteenth-century aesthetics.) |
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McCosh, J. (1875) The Scottish Philosophy, New York: Carter, 1911–2; repr. Bristol: Thoemmes, 1990. (Brief biographical sketch and commentary.) |
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Stulmitz, J. (1961) ‘Beauty: Some Stages in the History of Ideas’, Journal of the History of Ideas
22: 185–204. (Locates Gerard as the mediator between the internal sense theory of Hutcheson and the associationism of A. Alison.) |
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Townsend, D. (1987) ‘From Shaftesbury to Kant’, Journal of the History of Ideas
48: 287–305. (Traces the development of the empiricist tradition, including Gerard. Argues that activity of the mind is more important than association or sense to Gerard.) |
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