With contributions by leading scholars in the field, this book is the first collection in the English language devoted to Baumgarten's aesthetics.

This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features. In doing so, it refers to two

The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) introduced “aesthetics” as a new science in his Reflections on Poetry (1735) and develope

German Aesthetics provides English-speaking audiences with accessible explanations of fundamental concepts from the German tradition of philosophical aesthetics

When, in 1735, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten added a new discipline to the philosophical system, he not only founded modern aesthetics but also contributed to s