![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He thereby treats it not as belles lettres or as a moral institution but rather as an epistemic object. 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. It shows that Baumgarten's aesthetics is a science of literature that demonstrates the value of literature to philosophy. Copy AbstractĪlexander 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. Facing Poetry : Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature. ![]()
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