The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment: The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art

ISBN: 9781107541405 出版年：2013 页码：282 Stefanie Buchenau Cambridge University Press

Introduction 1. Wolff and the modern debate on a method of invention 2. Wolff on the pleasure of invention 3. Leibniz and Wolff on invention: hieroglyphs, images and poetry 4. Poetry as revelation: Bodmer, Breitinger, Gottsched on the imitation of nature 5. Invention, judgement, literary criticism 6. The rhetorical shift: Baumgarten's founding of aesthetics in the Meditationes philosophicae 7. Baumgarten's Aesthetica. Topics and the modern ars inveniendi 8. Aesthetics and anthropology 9. Aesthetics and ethics 10. 'A general heuristic is impossible'. Kant and the Wolffian ars inveniendi Conclusion.