Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb (1714–62)
DOI
10.4324/9780415249126-M013-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-M013-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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List of works
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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.) |
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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.) |
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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
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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.) |
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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.) |
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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.) |
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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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Townsend, Dabney. Bibliography. Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb (1714–62), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-M013-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/baumgarten-alexander-gottlieb-1714-62/v-1/bibliography/baumgarten-alexander-gottlieb-1714-62-bib.
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