The founding of aesthetics in the German Enlightenment : the art of invention and the invention of art / Stefanie Buchenau.
| Author/creator |
Buchenau, Stefanie |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013] |
| Description | viii, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 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; Conclusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264 ) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012033992 |
| ISBN | 9781107027138 |
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