03436nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10358418 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090727s2009 enk sb 001 0 eng 2009029699 GBA978601 bnb 015346385 Uk 9780199573011 (hardback : alk. paper) 0199573018 (hardback : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)617637945 e-gx--- BH221.G32 B45 2009eb 700.1 22 111.85094309032 22 Beiser, Frederick C., 1949- Diotima's children [electronic resource] : German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / Frederick C. Beiser. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. x, 295 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Reappraising aesthetic rationalism -- A glorious relic? -- Theory of aesthetic judgment -- The rationalist aesthetic -- The meaning of rules -- Kant's paltry polemic -- Diotima versus Dionysus -- The challenge of irrationalism -- Gadamer and the rationalist tradition -- Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism -- The grandfather's strange case -- Theory of beauty -- Analysis of sense -- The classical Trinity -- Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism -- Wolff and the aesthetic tradition -- Theory of the arts -- Psychology -- Theory of beauty -- Foundations of neo-classicism -- Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism -- Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke -- The importance of taste -- Defense of tragedy -- Theory of taste -- Poetics -- The rules -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Aesthetics, German 17th century. Aesthetics, German 18th century. Rationalism. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10358418 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 211550 211550