Baumgarten's Aesthetics

J. Colin McQuillan is associate professor of philosophy at St Mary's Unversity, Texas. He is the co-editor, with Joseph Tanke, of the Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics and author of Early Modern Aesthetics (Rowman & Littlefield International).

Introduction

Contributors

I. Baumgarten’s Aesthetics

1. Ursula Franke (Münster), “Baumgarten’s Discovery of Aesthetics” (translation)

2. Stefanie Buchenau (Paris), “Baumgarten’s Aesthetics and the Modern Art of Invention”

3. Matthew McAndrew (College of New Jersey), “Beauty and Appearance in Baumgarten’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics”

4. Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY), “Aesthetic Truth in Baumgarten’s Aesthetics”

II. Historical and Philosophical Contexts

5. Simon Grote (Wellesley), “Pietist Aisthesis and Moral Education in Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten” (translation)

6. J. Colin McQuillan (St. Mary’s), “Baumgarten’s Aesthetics and the Critique of Wolffian Rationalism”

7. Alessandro Nannini (Bucharest), “The Co-Founding of Aesthetics: Baumgarten and Meier”

8. Anne Pollok (South Carolina), “An Exercise in Humanity: Abbt and Mendelssohn on Baumgarten’s Notion of ‘Aesthetic Training’ and its Relation to the Vocation of Humanity”

9. Hans Adler (Wisconsin), “Perception, Cognition, Humanity: Herder’s Critical Appropriation of Baumgarten’s Aesthetics”

10. Robert Clewis (Gwynedd-Mercy), “The Majesty of Cognition: The Sublime in Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, and Kant”

III. Contemporary Perspectives

11. Christophe Menke (Frankfurt), “The Discipline of Aesthetics is the Aesthetic of Discipline: Baumgarten from Foucault’s Perspective” (translation)

12. Amelia Hruby (DePaul), “The Happy Aesthetician and the Feminist Killjoy: Baumgarten and Ahmed”

Bibliography

Index