Baumgarten's Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Redaktion: McQuillan, J. Colin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) introduced "aesthetics" as a new science in his Reflections on Poetry (1735) and developed this new part of philosophy in a series of later works, culminating in his unfinished Aesthetics (1750/1758). This volume is the first collection of essays in the English language devoted to Baumgarten's aesthetics. The essays highlight the distinguishing features of Baumgarten's aesthetics, situate it in its historical context, document its reception, and examine its contributions to contemporary philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538146262
• Artikelnr.: 62138568

Autorenporträt

J. Colin McQuillan is associate professor of philosophy at St Mary's Unversity, Texas. He is the co-editor, with Joseph Tanke, of the Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics and author of Early Modern Aesthetics (Rowman & Littlefield International).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Contributors
I. Baumgarten's Aesthetics
1. Ursula Franke (Münster), "Baumgarten's Discovery of Aesthetics"
(translation)
2. Stefanie Buchenau (Paris), "Baumgarten's Aesthetics and the Modern Art
of Invention"
3. Matthew McAndrew (College of New Jersey), "Beauty and Appearance in
Baumgarten's Metaphysics and Aesthetics"
4. Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY), "Aesthetic Truth in Baumgarten's Aesthetics"
II. Historical and Philosophical Contexts
5. Simon Grote (Wellesley), "Pietist Aisthesis and Moral Education in
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten" (translation)
6. J. Colin McQuillan (St. Mary's), "Baumgarten's Aesthetics and the
Critique of Wolffian Rationalism"
7. Alessandro Nannini (Bucharest), "The Co-Founding of Aesthetics:
Baumgarten and Meier"
8. Anne Pollok (South Carolina), "An Exercise in Humanity: Abbt and
Mendelssohn on Baumgarten's Notion of 'Aesthetic Training' and its Relation
to the Vocation of Humanity"
9. Hans Adler (Wisconsin), "Perception, Cognition, Humanity: Herder's
Critical Appropriation of Baumgarten's Aesthetics"
10. Robert Clewis (Gwynedd-Mercy), "The Majesty of Cognition: The Sublime
in Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, and Kant"
III. Contemporary Perspectives
11. Christophe Menke (Frankfurt), "The Discipline of Aesthetics is the
Aesthetic of Discipline: Baumgarten from Foucault's Perspective"
(translation)
12. Amelia Hruby (DePaul), "The Happy Aesthetician and the Feminist
Killjoy: Baumgarten and Ahmed"
Bibliography
Index