TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berndt,Frauke
AU  - Mahler,Anthony
TI  - Facing Poetry: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature 
T2  - Paradigms : literature and the human sciences,
SN  - 9783110624519
AV  - B2637.Z7 B47 2020eb
U1  - 111.85092 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb,
KW  - Aufkl�arung
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - Literaturtheorie
KW  - Rhetorik
KW  - aesthetics
KW  - rhetoric
KW  - �Asthetik
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index; Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Methodology --; 3. Epistemology --; 4. Metaphysics --; 5. Narratology --; 6. Ethics --; 7. Conclusion --; 8. Afterword --; 9. Works Cited --; Index; Open Access
N2  - 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
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