oa L’esthétique du spectacle dans les écrits de Diderot, Murray et Humboldt

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[Aesthetics of the Spectacle in the Writings of Diderot, Murray and Humboldt]

If aesthetics did not exist as such in Denis Diderot’s times, questions and reflections on art run through a large number of works by French philosophers of the 18th century, who were writing about aesthetics without using the actual term. Amongst others, Diderot and Emmanuel Murray can fall into this category. As for Wilhelm von Humboldt, he was the first to consciously consider the aesthetics of the spectacle in his essay written in 1799 and entitled Observations on the Art of French Tragic Actors, by a German.