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
J. Colin McQuillan
1.Baumgarten's Invention of Aesthetics
Ursula Franke
2. Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Topics and the Modern Ars inveniendi
Stefanie Buchenau
3. Beauty and Appearance in Baumgarten's Metaphysics and Aesthetics
Matthew McAndrew
4. Baumgarten's Conception of Aesthetic Truth in the Aesthetics
Angelica Nuzzo
5. Pietist Aisthesis and Moral Education in the Works of Alexander Gottlieb
Baumgarten
Simon Grote
6. Wolffian Rationalism and Baumgarten's Aesthetics
J. Colin McQuillan
7. The Co-Founding of Aesthetics: Baumgarten and Meier
Alessandro Nannini
8. An Exercise in Humanity: Baumgarten and Mendelssohn on the Importance of
Aesthetic Training
Anne Pollok
9. Herder's Engagement with Baumgarten
Hans Adler
10. The Majesty of Cognition: The Sublime in Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, and
Kant
Robert R. Clewis
11. The Discipline of Aesthetics is the Aesthetics of Discipline:
Baumgarten from Foucault's Perspective
Christoph Menke
12. The Happy Aesthetician and the Feminist Killjoy: Baumgarten and Ahmed
Amelia Hruby