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The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment

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Author: Stefanie Buchenau

The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art

Stefanie Buchenau,

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The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment

The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art

Stefanie Buchenau,

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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.

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2013

ISBN

9781107302747

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Modern Philosophy

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