Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing /
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Table of Contents:
- 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.