Diotima's Children

German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-969465-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. It is partly an historical survey of the central figures and themes of this tradition But it is also a philosophical defense of some of its leading ideas, viz., that beauty plays an integral role in life, that aesthetic pleasure is the perception of perfection, that aesthetic rules are inevitable and
valuable. It shows that the criticisms of Kant and Nietzsche of this tradition are largely unfounded. The rationalist tradition deserves re-examination because it is of great historical significance, marking the beginning of modern aesthetics, art criticism, and art history.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars of philosophy and intellectual history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beiser, Frederick C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reappraising Aesthetic Rationalism
1: Leibniz and the Roots of Aesthetic Rationalism
2: Wolff and the Birth of Aesthetic Rationalism
3: Gottsched and the Highnoon of Rationalism
4: The Poets' War
5: Baumgarten's Science of Aesthetics
6: Winckelmann & Neo-Classicism
7: Mendelssohn's Defense of Reason
8: Lessing and Aesthetic Rationalism
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Beiser, Frederick C.
Frederick Beiser was educated at Oriel College Oxford (B.A. 1972-74) and Wolfson College Oxford (1975-1981). He has had several major research fellowships: NEH, Guggenheim, Thyssen and Humboldt and has taught at seven US universities: Harvard, Yale, Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Syracuse. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University.