03995nam 2200601 a 450 991080710430332120231201135521.0978019157237101915723730-19-172220-01-282-38329-90-19-161022-40-19-157237-397866123832980-19-969465-6(MiAaPQ)EBC7033701(CKB)24235080200041(MiAaPQ)EBC472201(Au-PeEL)EBL472201(CaPaEBR)ebr10358418(CaONFJC)MIL238329(OCoLC)536239357(EXLCZ)992423508020004120090727d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing /Frederick C. BeiserOxford University Press2009Oxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,2009.1 online resource (x, 295 pages)9780199573011 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.This text presents a comprehensive re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics as it prevailed in Germany in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. This tradition is of the greatest historical importance because it gave birth to modern aesthetics, art criticism, and art history.Aesthetics, German17th centuryAesthetics, German18th centuryRationalismAesthetics, GermanAesthetics, GermanRationalism.700.1111.85094309032Beiser Frederick C.1949-320750MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807104303321Diotima's children2634597UNINA