Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment - The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art

Informationen zum Autor Stefanie Buchenau is a Maître de conférences in the German department of the Université Paris VIII. Klappentext Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Zusammenfassung This book explores the forgotten philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics in eighteenth-century Germany. It offers fresh perspectives on Kantian aesthetics and will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in the history of aesthetics and the beginnings of the German aesthetic tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Wolff and the modern debate on a method of invention; 2. Wolff on the pleasure of invention; 3. Leibniz and Wolff on invention: hieroglyphs, images and poetry; 4. Poetry as revelation: Bodmer, Breitinger, Gottsched on the imitation of nature; 5. Invention, judgement, literary criticism; 6. The rhetorical shift: Baumgarten's founding of aesthetics in the Meditationes philosophicae; 7. Baumgarten's Aesthetica. Topics and the modern ars inveniendi; 8. Aesthetics and anthropology; 9. Aesthetics and ethics; 10. 'A general heuristic is impossible'. Kant and the Wolffian ars inveniendi; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Stefanie Buchenau, Stefanie (Maitre De Conference Buchenau, Buchenau Stefanie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107541405
• ISBN: 978-1-107-54140-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Western Continental Europe