Diotima's children
Subtitle: German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing
By: Frederick Beiser.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199573011
Subjects: Aesthetics, German -- 17th century; Aesthetics, German -- 18th century; Rationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reappraising aesthetic rationalism; title: A glorious relic; title: Theory of aesthetic judgment; title: The rationalist aesthetic; title: The meaning of rules; title: Kant's paltry polemic; title: Diotima versus Dionysus; title: The challenge of irrationalism; title: Gadamer and the rationalist tradition; title: Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism; title: The grandfather's strange case; title: Theory of beauty; title: Analysis of sense; title: The classical Trinity; title: Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism; title: Wolff and the aesthetic tradition; title: Theory of the arts; title: Psychology; title: Theory of beauty; title: Foundations of neo-classicism; title: Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism; title: Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke; title: The importance of taste; title: Defense of tragedy; title: Theory of taste; title: Poetics; title: The rules; title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; title: The poets' war; title: Leipzig versus Zurich; title: Misreadings of the dispute; title: The point in dispute; title: Baumgarten's science of aesthetics; title: The father of aesthetics; title: A philosophical poetics; title: A science of beauty; title: Theory of sensation; title: Analysis of beauty; title: Status of aesthetics; title: An ambiguous legacy; title: Winckelmann and neo-classicism; title: Winckelmann as philosopher; title: Historical influence; title: Imitating the ancients; title: A neo-classical aesthetic; title: Ancients versus moderns; title: Aesthetic theory; title: Painting and allegory; title: Eros and Dionysus; title: Mendelssohn's defense of reason; title: The guardian of Enlightenment; title: The analysis of sensation; title: The grin of Silenus; title: Second thoughts; title: Taming the sublime; title: Reckoning with Burke; title: Encounter with Jean-Jacques; title: The claims of genius; title: First clash with Hamann; title: Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat; title: The three-faculty theory; title: Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism; title: Lessing and the rationalist tradition; title: Genius and rules; title: The irrationality of genius; title: Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics; title: Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument; title: Laokoon : the deductive argument; title: Laokoon : its hidden agenda.