![]() It waits latently to take its place in intellectual history. Baumgarten’s theory of literature has never been discovered. ![]() 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. Aesthetica Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Limited preview - 1961. He thereby treats it not as belles lettres or as a moral institution but rather as an epistemic object. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Full view - 1750. The Concept of Beauty in Alexander Baumgarten’s Aesthetica Chris van Rompaey Presented at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 November to 1 December, 2017 There are several reasons for making Baumgarten’s treatment of beauty the focus of this paper. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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