Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics

Book Overview

Preface.- THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND WRITING.- Verbal Disputes in Mendelssohn's "Morgenstunden", D.O. Dahlstrom.- Writing, Dialogue, and Marginal Form: Mendelssohn's Style of Intervention, W. Goetschel.- MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY.- Mendelssohn, Wolff, and Bernoulli on Probability, E.D. Sylla.- Mendelssohn on Lambert's "Neues Organon", P. Basso.- Mendelssohn's Euclidean Treatise on Equal Temperament, Henk Visser.- METAPHYSICS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT.- Moses Mendelssohn on Spinoza, D. P?tzold.- Mendelssohn's Concept of the Human Soul in Comparison With Those of Georg Friedrich Meier and Kant, F. Tomasoni.- Turning the Game against the Idealist: Mendelssohn's Refutation of Idealism in the "Morgenstunden" and Kant's Replies, C.W. Dyck.- "What is the bond?" The discussion of Mendelssohn and Kant 1785-1787, R.W. Munk.- Divided by Common Sense: Mendelssohn and Jacobi on Reason and Inferential Justification, P. Franks.- The Year 1786 and "Die Bestimmung des Menschen," or "Popularphilosophie" in Crisis, G. di Giovanni.- Mendelssohn versus Herder on the Vocation of Man, F.C. Beiser.- Free Will and Moral Necessity in Mendelssohn, J. Leilich.- AESTHETICS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT.- Mendelssohn's Theory of Mixed Sentiments, P. Guyer.- The Eighteenth-Century Rehabilitation of Sensitive Knowledge and the Birth of Aesthetics: Wolff, Baumgarten and Mendelssohn, L.C. Madonna.- Mendelssohn's Spinozistic Alternative to Baumgarten's Pietist Project of Aesthetics, U. Goldenbaum.- Mendelssohn's Response to Burke on The Sublime, A. Koller.- Moses Mendelssohn: Iconoclast, G. Freudenthal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 940073736X
• ISBN13: 9789400737365
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"