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Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb (1714–62)

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10.4324/9780415249126-M013-1
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DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-M013-1
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List of works

  • Baumgarten, A.G. (1735) Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus, trans. K. Aschenbrenner and W.B. Holther as Reflections on Poetry, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1954.

    (English translation of Baumgarten’s dissertation with a useful introduction.)

  • Baumgarten, A.G. (1739, 1758) Texte zur Grundlegung der Ästhetik, trans. H.R. Schweizer, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1983.

    (Four key aesthetic texts, including a Latin text with parallel German translation of key sections of Baumgarten’s Metaphysica of 1739.)

  • Baumgarten, A.G. (1750, 1758) Theoretische Ästhetik, trans. H.R. Schweizer, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1983.

    (Latin text with parallel German translation of selected sections of Baumgarten’s Aesthetica.)

References and further reading

  • Croce, B. (1909) Aesthetic, trans. D. Ainslie, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, 212–219.

    (An essentially negative evaluation of Baumgarten’s contribution to the history of aesthetics.)

  • Cassirer, E. (1951) The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, trans. F.C.A. Koelln and J.P. Pettegrove, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    (In contrast to Croce, Cassirer credits Baumgarten with being the founder of modern aesthetics.)

  • Gregor, M.J. (1983) ‘Baumgarten’s Aesthetica ’, Review of Metaphysics 37 (2): 357–385.

    (Argues that while there is a change in perspective, Baumgarten’s definitions of the aesthetic remain consistently rationalist.)

  • Wessell, L.P., Jr (1972) ‘Alexander Baumgarten’s Contribution to the Development of Aesthetics’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 30 (3): 333–342.

    (Contends that Baumgarten did free aesthetics from rationalism, but only at the cost of consistency.)

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