Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic

THE
ÆSTHETIC
IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR
TO THE MEMORY OF HIS PARENTS
PASQUALE AND LUISA SIPARI
AND OF HIS SISTER
MARIA
Benedetto Croce's Philosophy of the Spirit, in the English translation by Douglas Ainslie, consists of 4 volumes (which can be read separately): 1. Aesthetic as science of expression and general linguistic. (This is the second augmented edition. A first ed. is also available at Project Gutenberg.) 2. Philosophy of the practical: economic and ethic. (In preparation) 3. Logic as the science of the pure concept. 4. Theory and history of historiography. (In preparation) Transcriber's note.

EXTRACT FROM INTRODUCTION xix
NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR xxv
AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxvii