Apogeo y crisis del racionalismo estético durante L'âge classique

Abstract

The seventeenth century in France, so marked by Cartesian philosophy and classical art, laid the foundation for the birth of Aesthetics. The crisis of poetic rationalist models, paradigmatically represented by Boileau’s Poetic Art, gave rise to philosophical reflections on the relativity of beauty and its sensuality and immediacy, synchronizing what was happening in France with what was happening in Britain. The Querelle des anciens et des modernes, as well as the controversial work of Abbe Du Bos can be considered two of the most important challenges to the survival of those traditional models.