With contributions by leading scholars in the field, this book is the first collection in the English language devoted to Baumgarten's aesthetics.
Introduction
J. Colin McQuillan
1.Baumgarten's Invention of Aesthetics
Ursula Franke
2. Baumgarten's Aesthetics: Topics and the Modern Ars inveniendi
Stefanie Buchenau
3. Beauty and Appearance in Baumgarten's Metaphysics and Aesthetics
Matthew McAndrew
4. Baumgarten's Conception of Aesthetic Truth in the Aesthetics
Angelica Nuzzo
5. Pietist Aisth¿sis and Moral Education in the Works of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Simon Grote
6. Wolffian Rationalism and Baumgarten's Aesthetics
J. Colin McQuillan
7. The Co-Founding of Aesthetics: Baumgarten and Meier
Alessandro Nannini
8.An Exercise in Humanity: Baumgarten and Mendelssohn on the Importance of Aesthetic Training
Anne Pollok
9.Herder's Engagement with Baumgarten
Hans Adler
10.The Majesty of Cognition: The Sublime in Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, and Kant
Robert R. Clewis
11.The Discipline of Aesthetics is the Aesthetics of Discipline: Baumgarten from Foucault's Perspective
Christoph Menke
12.The Happy Aesthetician and the Feminist Killjoy: Baumgarten and Ahmed
Amelia Hruby