Revival of Herbartian Æsthetic--Robert Zimmermann--Vischer _versus_ Zimmermann--Hermann Lotze--Efforts to reconcile Æsthetic of form and Æsthetic of content--K. Köstlin--Æsthetic of content. M. Schasler--Eduard von Hartmann--Hartmann and the theory of modifications--Metaphysical Æsthetic in France: C. Levêque--In England: J. Ruskin--Æsthetic in Italy--Antonio Tari and his lectures--Æsthesigraphy
Positivism and evolutionism--Æsthetic of H. Spencer--Physiologists of Æsthetic: Grant Allen, Helmholtz and others--Method of the natural sciences in Æsthetic--H. Taine's Æsthetic--Taine's metaphysic and moralism--G. T. Fechner: inductive Æsthetic--Experiments--Trivial nature of his ideas on Beauty and Art--Ernst Grosse: speculative Æsthetic and the Science of Art--Sociological Æsthetic--Proudhon--J. M. Guyau--M. Nordau--Naturalism: C. Lombroso--Decline of linguistic--Signs of revival: H. Paul--The linguistic of Wundt
ÆSTHETIC PSYCHOLOGISM AND OTHER RECENT TENDENCIES
Neo-criticism and empiricism--Kirchmann--Metaphysic translated into Psychology: Vischer--Siebeck--M. Diez--Psychological tendency. Teodor Lipps--K. Groos--The modifications of the Beautiful in Groos and Lipps--E. Véron and the double form of Æsthetic--L. Tolstoy--F. Nietzsche --An æsthetician of Music: E. Hanslick--Hanslick's concept of form --Æstheticians of the figurative arts: C. Fiedler--Intuition and expression--Narrow limits of these theories--H. Bergson--Attempts to return to Baumgarten: C. Hermann--Eclecticism: B. Bosanquet --Æsthetic of expression: present state
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF SOME PARTICULAR DOCTRINES
Result of the history of Æsthetic--History of science and history of the scientific criticism of particular errors
I. RHETORIC: OR THE THEORY OF ORNATE FORM.
Rhetoric in the ancient sense--Criticism from moral point of view--Accumulation without system--Its fortunes in the Middle Ages and Renaissance--Criticisms by Vives, Ramus and Patrizzi--Survival into modern times--Modern signification of Rhetoric: theory of literary form--Concept of ornament--Classes of ornament--The concept of the Fitting--The theory of ornament in the Middle Ages and Renaissance--_Reductio ad absurdum_ in the seventeenth century--Polemic concerning the theory of ornament--Du Marsais and metaphor--Psychological interpretation--Romanticism and Rhetoric: present day