This volume unites the best, previous scholarship on Baumgarten’s aesthetics with exciting new essays demonstrating the continued significance of his thought. Dyck, professor of philosophy, Western Universityīaumgarten is an essential link in the tradition of modern German philosophy and his aesthetics is central to understanding the originality of his philosophical project. Baumgarten's dynamism and independence as a thinker, carefully traces the breadth and depth of his historical influence, and makes a compelling and innovative case for his enduring contemporary relevance. This is a vibrant collection of essays that decisively underlines A. Endre Szécsényi, honorary research fellow, University of Aberdeen, and professor of aesthetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University This volume of excellent studies helps the English readership better understand that the phenomenon of the aesthetic is a highly important modern development, and that, during its evolution in the eighteenth century, several ideas, insights and theoretical tracks were raised which later, especially after Immanuel Kant’s contribution to the field, became underestimated, less discussed, if at all, or even misunderstood. Makkreel, Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Emory University The essays collected in this volume also show how this new discipline relates to the modern search for the art of invention, the Pietist faith in communication through the affects, and Baumgarten's influence on later philosophers.

Colin McQuillan provides a wide ranging set of essays that expand on Baumgarten's new science of sensible cognition as well as the aesthetic perfections of clarity and liveliness that characterize beauty. This excellent volume on Baumgarten's aesthetics edited by J. The Co-Founding of Aesthetics: Baumgarten and MeierĨ.An Exercise in Humanity: Baumgarten and Mendelssohn on the Importance of Aesthetic Trainingġ0.The Majesty of Cognition: The Sublime in Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, and Kantġ1.The Discipline of Aesthetics is the Aesthetics of Discipline: Baumgarten from Foucault’s Perspectiveġ2.The Happy Aesthetician and the Feminist Killjoy: Baumgarten and Ahmed Wolffian Rationalism and Baumgarten’s Aestheticsħ. Pietist Aisthēsis and Moral Education in the Works of Alexander Gottlieb BaumgartenĦ.

Baumgarten’s Conception of Aesthetic Truth in the Aestheticsĥ. Beauty and Appearance in Baumgarten’s Metaphysics and AestheticsĤ. Baumgarten’s Aesthetics : Topics and the Modern Ars inveniendiģ.

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