Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Über den Autor
Stefanie Buchenau is a Maître de conférences in the German department of the Université Paris VIII.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
