Aesthetica

Also noteworthy is York's first international film festival, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival Thu to 6 Nov, asff.co.uk, which includes a series of talks to run alongside screenings ranging from animation to drama.

This week's film festivals 2011

Kommentierende Einführung in Baumgartens “Aesthetica”: Zur entstehenden wissenschaftlichen Ästhetik des 18.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Baumgarten produced two major texts, his metaphysics in 1739 (Metaphysica), which Kant would use as a textbook, and, in 1750 and 1758, his aesthetics (Aesthetica).

18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant Sassen, Brigitte 2007

Although Baumgarten makes some broad claims for the new science, this is not where the novelty of the Aesthetica lies, for at least in the extant part of the work Baumgarten never actually develops this theme.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

The list of the perfections of every kind of cognition that Baumgarten gives in the first chapter of the Aesthetica is “wealth, magnitude, truth, clarity, and liveliness”

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

However, since Baumgarten himself does not give as much emphasis to the emotional aspect of the experience of art in his Aesthetica as his earlier Meditations might lead us to expect, we will return to Meier's development of this theme only after we have considered Baumgarten's mature work.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Before we can turn to the Aesthetica, however, we must look at some of the key definitions Baumgarten lays down in the chapter on

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Aesthetica, and Meier emphasized it in several of his works.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

The next year, however, Baumgarten's health began to decline, and a second volume of the Aesthetica came out only in 1758, under pressure from the publisher.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Elsewhere, shares of Medicis Pharmaceutical surged after the company said its Aesthetica unit acquired the rights to Ipsen's botox product Reloxin.

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