The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment
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The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment

The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment

The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art

About this book

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, but Buchenau argues that Baumgarten defended a consistent and original project which must be viewed in the context of the modern debate on the art of invention. Her book offers new perspectives on Kantian aesthetics and beauty in art and science.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781107027138
eBook ISBN
9781107302747
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Wolff and the modern debate on a method of invention
  10. Chapter 2 Wolff on the pleasure of invention
  11. Chapter 3 Leibniz and Wolff on invention and language: hieroglyphs, images, and poetry
  12. Chapter 4 Poetry as revelation: Bodmer, Breitinger, and Gottsched on the imitation of nature
  13. chapter 5 Invention, judgment, literary criticism
  14. Chapter 6 The rhetorical shift: Baumgarten’s founding of aesthetics in the Meditationes philosophicae
  15. Chapter 7 Baumgarten’s Aesthetica: topics and the modern ars inveniendi
  16. Chapter 8 Aesthetics and anthropology
  17. chapter 9 Aesthetics and ethics
  18. Chapter 10 ‘A general heuristic is impossible’: Kant and the Wolffian ars inveniendi
  19. Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index of names
  22. Subject index

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