Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing

by Frederick C. Beiser

Book Overview

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: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"