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Item Number: 123082
Title: The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment : The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art
Author: Buchenau, Stefanie
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781107027138
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 272pp. Contents: 1. Wolff and the modern debate on a method of invention. 2. Wolff on the pleasure of invention. 3. Leibniz and Wolff on invention: hieroglyphs, images and poetry. 4. Poetry as revelation: Bodmer, Breitinger, Gottsched on the imitation of nature. 5. Invention, judgement, literary criticism. 6. The rhetorical shift: Baumgarten's founding of aesthetics in the Meditationes philosophicae. 7. Baumgarten's Aesthetica. Topics and the modern ars inveniendi. 8. Aesthetics and anthropology. 9. Aesthetics and ethics. 10. 'A general heuristic is impossible'. Kant and the Wolffian ars inveniendi.
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