LEADER 04675nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910457012303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-969465-6 010 $a1-282-38329-9 010 $a9786612383298 010 $a0-19-157237-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000002484 035 $a(EBL)472201 035 $a(OCoLC)536239357 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001144099 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12429266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001144099 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11114836 035 $a(PQKB)11009172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336746 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11242402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336746 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10282888 035 $a(PQKB)11245446 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075804 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472201 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472201 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10358418 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL238329 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000002484 100 $a20090727d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDiotima's children$b[electronic resource] $eGerman aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing /$fFrederick C. Beiser 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-172220-0 311 $a0-19-957301-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReappraising 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. 330 $aDiotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. It is partly an historical survey of the central figures and themes of this tradition But it is also a philosophical defense of some of its leading ideas, viz., that beauty plays an integral role in life, that aesthetic pleasure is the perception of perfection, that aesthetic rules are inevitable and valuable. Itshows that the criticisms of Kant and Nietzsche of this tradition are largely unfounded. The rationalist tradition deserves re-ex 606 $aAesthetics, German$y17th century 606 $aAesthetics, German$y18th century 606 $aRationalism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAesthetics, German 615 0$aAesthetics, German 615 0$aRationalism. 676 $a700.1 676 $a111.85094309032 700 $aBeiser$b Frederick C.$f1949-$0320750 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457012303321 996 $aDiotima's children$92168342 997 $aUNINA