Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Munk, Reinier (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Σειρά: Studies in German Idealism, 13
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Aesthetics.; Metaphysics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Philology.; Linguistics.; History of Philosophy.; Language and Literature.; Philosophy of Language.

This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought.  The first group of contributors explores themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, presen...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. Pätzold
• 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.