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Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives


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The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) is known as the founder of modern aesthetics because he introduced the term “aesthetics” into philosophy in his Reflections on Poetry (1736), Metaphysics (1739), and in his unfinished Aesthetics (1750/1758). This volume is the first collection of essays in the English language devoted to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s aesthetics. The essays collected in this volume explain the distinguishing features of Baumgarten’s aesthetics; situate it in its historical context; document its reception; and examine its contributions to contemporary philosophy.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
Baumgarten is an essential link in the tradition of modern German philosophy and his aesthetics is central to understanding the originality of his philosophical project. This volume unites the best, previous scholarship on Baumgarten's aesthetics with exciting new essays demonstrating the continued significance of his thought. It will be essential reading for all scholars of modern German philosophy and the history of aesthetics and, due to its thorough introduction and comprehensive scope, could also serve brilliantly as an introductory textbook. This book should reignite interest in Baumgarten's aesthetics, appealing not only to historians of philosophy but also to philosophers of art and aesthetics. This excellent volume on Baumgarten's aesthetics edited by J. Colin McQuillan provides a wide ranging set of essays that expand on Baumgarten's new science of sensible cognition as well as the aesthetic perfections of clarity and liveliness that characterize beauty. The essays collected in this volume also show how this new discipline relates to the modern search for the art of invention, the Pietist faith in communication through the affects, and Baumgarten's influence on later philosophers. This is a vibrant collection of essays that decisively underlines A. G. Baumgarten's dynamism and independence as a thinker, carefully traces the breadth and depth of his historical influence, and makes a compelling and innovative case for his enduring contemporary relevance. This volume of excellent studies helps the English readership better understand that the phenomenon of the aesthetic is a highly important modern development, and that, during its evolution in the eighteenth century, several ideas, insights and theoretical tracks were raised which later, especially after Immanuel Kant's contribution to the field, became underestimated, less discussed, if at all, or even misunderstood.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781538146255
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 372
  • Spine Width: 34 mm
  • Weight: 770 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1538146258
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
  • Width: 163 mm


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