The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment: The Art of Invention and the Invention ...
ISBN: 9781107027138 | 1107027136
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 4/22/2013
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When, in 1735, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten added a new discipline to the philosophical system, he not only founded modern aesthetics but also contributed to shaping the modern concept of art or 'fine art'. In The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment, Stefanie Buchenau offers a rich analysis and reconstruction of the origins of this new discipline in its wider context of German Enlightenment philosophy. Present-day scholars commonly regard Baumgarten's views as an imperfect prefiguration of Kantian and post-Kantian aesthetics, bu... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Wolff and the modern debate on a method of invention | |
| Wolff on the pleasure of invention | |
| Leibniz and Wolff on invention: hieroglyphs, images and poetry | |
| Poetry as revelation: Bodmer, Breitinger, Gottsched on the imitation of nature | |
| Invention, judgement, literary criticism | |
| The rhetorical shift: Baumgarten's founding of aesthetics in the Meditationes philosophicae | ... MORE|
| Baumgarten's Aesthetica. Topics and the modern ars inveniendi | |
| Aesthetics and anthropology | |
| Aesthetics and ethics | |
| 'A general heuristic is impossible'. Kant and the Wolffian ars inveniendi | |
| Conclusion | |
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