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1 online resource |
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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, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The invention of art and aesthetics; The standard line of interpretation and its problems; The alternative hermeneutic approach: aesthetics in context; The invention of art and the art of invention; Brief chapter outline; Chapter 1 Wolff and the modern debate on a method of invention; Early modern premises on invention and genius; Wolff's critical response: the mathematician's bad fictions; The philosopher and the arts; Wolff's ars inveniendi and technology. |
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Architecture: art and scienceConclusion; Chapter 2 Wolff on the pleasure of invention; The pleasure of knowledge and invention; The pleasure of beauty; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Leibniz and Wolff on invention and language: hieroglyphs, images, and poetry; Leibniz's ars characteristica: the quest for 'real characters'; Ambivalent poetics: reading Opitz as a logical exercise; Wolff's art of fiction: 'images in which there is truth'; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Poetry as revelation: Bodmer, Breitinger, and Gottsched on the imitation of nature; Poetry and the logic of the imagination. |
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Imitation and the revelation of natureConclusion; chapter 5 Invention, judgment, literary criticism; Criticism and the method of invention; De gustibus non est disputandum? The case of the Milton controversy; The first aesthetic antinomy of the German Enlightenment: thesis; Antithesis; Conclusion; Chapter 6 The rhetorical shift: Baumgarten's founding of aesthetics in the Meditationes philosophicae; A return to ancient rhetoric?; The modern expulsion of inventio from rhetoric; The restitution of poetry within the modern setting: extensive clarity; Methodology; Semiotics; Conclusion. |
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Chapter 7 Baumgarten's Aesthetica: topics and the modern ars inveniendiCicero and Baumgarten: elective affinities; Attributes of particular beauty in the Aesthetica; Character aesthetici; Ubertas and brevitas; Magnitudo (dignitas and magnamitas); Veritas/falsitas/verisimilitudo; Lux; Persuasio; The construction of a second method of invention; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Aesthetics and anthropology; The hierarchy of sense and intellect in the Leibnizian and Wolffian tradition; Baumgarten on language and thought; Human sensibility; Reason; Conclusion; chapter 9 Aesthetics and ethics. |
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Moral cosmology and moral semioticsToward the moral rehabilitation of art and poetry; The moral status of poetry; Conclusion; Chapter 10 'A general heuristic is impossible': Kant and the Wolffian ars inveniendi; Kant's condemnation of Wolffian natural logic; Wolffian logic: organon or sophistry?; Kant's dual genealogy: a return to dialectics; Invention in Kantian aesthetics; The battle against rules continued; The expulsion of method from aesthetics; Natural beauty; Kant's formalization of purposiveness; Genius: Homer versus Newton; Conclusion; Conclusion; Summary; Perspectives; Bibliography. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von, 1679-1754.
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Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von, 1679-1754. |
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BMBF-Statusseminar. |
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Aesthetics, German -- 18th century.
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Aesthetics, German. |
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18th century |
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Enlightenment -- Germany.
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Enlightenment. |
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Germany. |
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1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Buchenau, Stefanie. Founding of aesthetics in the German Enlightenment. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107027138 (DLC) 2012033992 (OCoLC)812614226 |
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9781107314481 (electronic book) |
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1107314488 (electronic book) |
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9781139225281 (electronic book) |
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1139225286 (electronic book) |
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9781107027138 |
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1107027136 |
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9781299257313 |
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1299257313 |
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