Diotima's children : German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing

1. Verfasser: Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: x, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
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100 1 |a Beiser, Frederick C.,  |d 1949- 
245 1 0 |a Diotima's children :  |b German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing /  |c Frederick C. Beiser. 
260 |a Oxford ;  |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c 2009. 
300 |a x, 295 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Reappraising aesthetic rationalism -- A glorious relic? -- Theory of aesthetic judgment -- The rationalist aesthetic -- The meaning of rules -- Kant's paltry polemic -- Diotima versus Dionysus -- The challenge of irrationalism -- Gadamer and the rationalist tradition -- Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism -- The grandfather's strange case -- Theory of beauty -- Analysis of sense -- The classical Trinity -- Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism -- Wolff and the aesthetic tradition -- Theory of the arts -- Psychology -- Theory of beauty -- Foundations of neo-classicism -- Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism -- Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke -- The importance of taste -- Defense of tragedy -- Theory of taste -- Poetics -- The rules -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda. 
650 0 |a Aesthetics, German  |y 17th century. 
650 0 |a Aesthetics, German  |y 18th century. 
650 0 |a Rationalism. 
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