LEADER 03999nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910795999803321 005 20231201135521.0 010 $a9780191572371 010 $a0191572373 010 $a0-19-172220-0 010 $a1-282-38329-9 010 $a0-19-161022-4 010 $a0-19-157237-3 010 $a9786612383298 010 $a0-19-969465-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7033701 035 $a(CKB)24235080200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472201 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472201 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10358418 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL238329 035 $a(OCoLC)536239357 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235080200041 100 $a20090727d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDiotima's children $eGerman aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing /$fFrederick C. Beiser 210 $cOxford University Press$d2009 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 295 pages) 311 $a9780199573011 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 $aThis 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. 606 $aAesthetics, German$y17th century 606 $aAesthetics, German$y18th century 606 $aRationalism 615 0$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 $a9910795999803321 996 $aDiotima's children$92634597 997 $aUNINA