Facing Poetry : Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature / Frauke Berndt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berndt, Frauke, Author.

Contributor:

Mahler, Anthony

Series:

Paradigms

Paradigms ; 12

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Frauke Berndt, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Summary:

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) is known in intellectual history for having established the discourse of philosophical aesthetics with his "Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus" (Reflections on Poetry) and "Aesthetica" (Aesthetics), which consists of two books and is considered Baumgarten’s most important work. But this book amends that history. It shows that Baumgarten's aesthetics is a science of literature that demonstrates the value of literature to philosophy. Baumgarten did not intend to pursue such a task, but in working on his philosophical texts and lectures, he ends up analyzing, synthesizing, and contextualizing literature. He thereby treats it not as belles lettres or as a moral institution but rather as an epistemic object. His aesthetics is thus the first modern literary theory, and his articulation of this theory would never again be matched in its complexity and systematicity. Baumgarten’s theory of literature has never been discovered. It waits latently to take its place in intellectual history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Methodology

3. Epistemology

4. Metaphysics

5. Narratology

6. Ethics

7. Conclusion

8. Afterword

9. Works Cited

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110623482

311062348X

9783110624519

3110624516

OCLC:

1202625337

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access