Pdf aesthetics is commonly defined as the study of beauty, and its opposite, ugliness. The concept of beauty in alexander baumgartens aesthetica chris van. Baumgarten and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Integral to baumgartian aesthetics is the idea of beauty, and the. Baumgarten s project, we might well ask to be excused from pursuing the subject further. Alexander gottlieb baumgarten a dnesne reflexie jeho estetickeho myslenia abstract. As a student at halle, baumgarten was strongly influenced by the works of g. Baumgarten was born in berlin and educated at halle, where he became professor before moving in 1740 to a chair at frankfurt. Alexander baumgarten 17141762, an influential german philosopher preceding immanuel kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics. Han blir gjerne betraktet som grunnlegger av estetikken. Baumgartens science of aesthetics oxford scholarship. Yet his manual on metaphysics was one of the chief textbooks of philosophical instruction in latter 18thcentury germany. Pdf the concept of beauty in alexander baumgartens aesthetica. From leibniz to kant distinctions between clear and confused ideas and perceptions and their relationship to what leibniz regarded as distinct ideas before moving on in the third section to baumgarten s foundation of aesthetics.
He was a brother to theologian siegmund jakob baumgarten 17061757. Aesthetica alexander gottlieb baumgarten full view 1750. This short tract contains in nuce baumgarten s entire program and the first formulation of his science of. Alexander baumgarten was the first who used the word. The philosophical discipline of aesthetics did not receive its name until 1735, when the twentyone year old alexander gottlieb baumgarten introduced it in his halle masters thesis to mean episteme aisthetike, or the science of what is sensed and imagined baumgarten, meditationes cxvi, pp.
Although the content of alexander gottlieb baumgarten s. He taught a modified leibnizian system, very much in the spirit of wolff. The theory of aesthetics started controversies over its legitimate existence as a fully developed sc. Pdf the concept of beauty in alexander baumgartens. In the first part, i analyze the way in which baumgarten s aesthetic innovation has been perceived by two. If kants account of baumgarten s new science makes it ap pear singularly uninteresting, baumgarten seems at least to be using aesthetics in a familiar sense, as equivalent, in kants report. Leibnizs analysis of obscure, clear and distinct ideas and con. German bernhard poppe, alexander gottlieb baumgarten. The discipline in its modern form is primarily concerned with issues surrounding the creation, interpretation, and ultimate appreciation of works of art, and so it involves how the. Marys university introduction at the beginning of the preface to the third 1750 edition of baumgarten s metaphysics, we find a response to an unnamed critic of his reflections on poetry 1735.
Hegel criticou o termo a expresso generative entrenchments no aesthetik. Baumgarten studia leibnitiana supplementa ix, wiesbaden 1972. The problems of aesthetics had been treated by others before baumgarten, but he both advanced the discussion of such topics as art and beauty and set the discipline off from the rest of philosophy. Alexander gottlieb baumgarten 20 felix meiner verlag. Pdf alexander gottlieb baumgarten michael hauskeller.
He is remembered for his introduction of the term aesthetics in the sense, which it retains in kant, of the attainment of knowledge by means of the senses. Baumgarten, an eighteenthcentury german philosopher and founder of aesthetics as a science of sensible cognition, whose work has been received with ambiguity. The theory of aesthetics started controversies over its legitimate existence as a fully developed science. Baumgarten and the coming of age of aesthetics abstract the aim of this essay is to examine baumgarten s conception on the history of aesthetics and on his role in it. This chapter focuses on alexander gottlieb baumgarten, who is considered the founder of modern aesthetics. But baumgarten s denomination of the field was an adult baptism. Baumgarten was born in berlin as the fifth of seven sons of the pietist pastor of the garrison, jacob baumgarten, and of his wife. Alexander gottlieb baumgarten 171462 is best known for his use of the name aesthetics to designate a field of study that has remained an important part of philosophy ever since. In recent years, we have been witnessing a certain resurgence of interest in the work of a. Alexander gottlieb baumgarten, german philosopher and educator who coined the term aesthetics and established this discipline as a distinct field of philosophical inquiry. Pdf on jan 1, 2005, michael hauskeller and others published alexander gottlieb baumgarten find. Theory of aesthetics, philosophical study of art and natural beauty essaysaesthetics is the name of the philosophical study of art and natural beauty miller, 2004.
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