Walter Pater and an Aesthetic Conception of History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Walter Pater and an Aesthetic Conception of History

Sunday 04 August 2024 is the 185th anniversary of the birth of Walter Horatio Pater (04 August 1839 – 30 July 1894), who was born in London’s East End on this date in 1839.

Pater’s book on the renaissance, first published in 1873 as Studies in the History of the Renaissance, and revised in 1877 as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, culminated in a passionate philosophy of life based on the ideals of the renaissance, as Pater understood them from his Victorian perspective: “To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.” But can this philosophy of life be translated into a philosophy of history?

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