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Baumgarten's Aesthetics
The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) introduced “aesthetics” as a new science in his Reflections on Poetry (1735) and developed this new part of philosophy in a series of later works, culminating in his unfinished Aesthetics (1750/1758). This volume is the first collection of essays in the English language devoted to Baumgarten’s aesthetics. The essays highlight the distinguishing features of Baumgarten’s aesthetics, situate it in its historical context, document its reception, and examine its contributions to contemporary philosophy.
The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment
Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Barbarism Revisited
The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses? The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism's genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has function...
Who is this Schiller Now?
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- an innovative and resonant tragedian and an important poet, essayist, historian, and aesthetic theorist -- are among the best known of German and world literature. Schiller's explosive original artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic debate. The essays in this volume address the many flashpoints and canonicalshifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his works, in pursuit of historical an...
The Relevance of Romanticism
This collection of essays directly considers the reasons why philosophers have recently become deeply interested in romantic thought. Through historical and systematic reconstructions, the volume offers greater understanding of romanticism as a philosophical movement and deeper insight into the role that romantic thought plays - or can play - in contemporary philosophical debates.
Facing Poetry
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.
Die dramatische Wirkungspoetik im Frühwerk Schillers
Christoph Gschwind zeigt, wie Schillers frühe Dramen "Die Räuber", "Fiesko", "Kabale und Liebe" und "Don Karlos" wirkungspoetisch funktionieren. Anhand der Analyse von Schillers Frühwerk gibt er, basierend auf der Terminologie der analytischen Literaturwissenschaft, Antworten auf die allgemeine Frage nach dem Verhältnis zwischen Poesie und Philosophie – und auf die spezielle Frage nach der kognitiven Signifikanz literarisch-fiktionaler Texte. Die vorliegende Arbeit unterscheidet sich methodisch von einem klassisch-hermeneutischen Interpretationsverfahren, indem sie auf eine Rekonstruktion von emotiven und kognitiven Funktionen aus Schillers frühen Dramentexten zielt. Das Begriffsinstr...
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Poetiken
Das Lexikon enthält mehr als 400 Artikel zu Poetiken und poetologischen Texten aus allen Epochen der Literatur der westlichen Hemisphäre. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf der poetologischen Reflexion der Moderne und hier besonders auf Autorenpoetiken sowie auf der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Das Lexikon, an dem mehr als 150 Experten aus verschiedenen literaturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen mitgearbeitet haben, beseitigt ein seit langem bestehendes Desiderat der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung.
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