![]() Philosophical poetics is (by §9) the science guiding sensate discourse to perfection and since in speaking we have those representations which we communicate, philosophical poetics presupposes in the poet a lower cognitive faculty. Holther (University of California Press, pp. His definition of aesthetics comes in the antepenultimate and penultimate sections of the Reflections on Poetry, rendered as follows in the 1954 translation by Karl Aschenbrenner and William B. ![]() ![]() In this book, Baumgarten, one of the later rationalists, asserted in quasi-Euclidean fashion a cumulative series of definitions and derivations about what he called "philosophical poetry". The book is Alexander Baumgarten's Reflections on Poetry - actually Meditationes Philosophicae de Nonnulis ad Poema Pertinentibus, written in modern Latin and first published in 1735 (Baumgarten expanded upon the topic in his Aesthetica of 1750-8, which as far as I know has not yet been translated into any modern vernacular). ![]() One Small Voice: Aestheticae Aestheticae by Peter Saint-Andre Īlthough philosophers and critics are happy to use the term "aesthetics", few have read the short treatise in which that term was coined. ![]()
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