03020nam 22005655 450 99636504260331620231110225355.03-11-062348-X3-11-062451-610.1515/9783110624519(CKB)4100000011559106(DE-B1597)501262(DE-B1597)9783110624519(OCoLC)1202625337EBL7015074(AU-PeEL)EBL7015074(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63601(MiAaPQ)EBC7015074(EXLCZ)99410000001155910620201028h20202020 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFacing Poetry Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature /Frauke BerndtBerlin/BostonDe Gruyter2020Berlin ;Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]©20201 online resource (X, 238 p.)Paradigms ;12Description based upon print version of record.3-11-062331-5 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Epistemology -- 4. Metaphysics -- 5. Narratology -- 6. Ethics -- 7. Conclusion -- 8. Afterword -- 9. Works Cited -- Index Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) is known in intellectual history for having established the discourse of philosophical aesthetics with his "Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus" (Reflections on Poetry) and "Aesthetica" (Aesthetics), which consists of two books and is considered Baumgarten’s most important work. But this book amends that history. It shows that Baumgarten's aesthetics is a science of literature that demonstrates the value of literature to philosophy. Baumgarten did not intend to pursue such a task, but in working on his philosophical texts and lectures, he ends up analyzing, synthesizing, and contextualizing literature. He thereby treats it not as belles lettres or as a moral institution but rather as an epistemic object. His aesthetics is thus the first modern literary theory, and his articulation of this theory would never again be matched in its complexity and systematicity. Baumgarten’s theory of literature has never been discovered. It waits latently to take its place in intellectual history. Paradigms LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralbisacshEnlightenment.Literary theory.aesthetics.rhetoric.LITERARY CRITICISM / General.Berndt Frauke, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut918795Mahler Anthony918796DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996365042603316Facing Poetry2060414UNISA