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.
Schlagworte:
Aesthetics, German > 17th century.
Aesthetics, German > 18th century.
Rationalism.
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.

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