Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing
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Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. It is partly an historical survey of the central figures and themes of this tradition But it is also a philosophical defense of some of its leading ideas, viz., that beauty plays an integral role in life, that aesthetic pleasure is the perception of perfection, that aesthetic rules are inevitable...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199694656
ISBN13:9780199694655
Release Date:December 2011
Publisher:OUP Oxford
Length:306 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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