ÆSTHETIC IDEAS OF THE CARTESIAN AND LEIBNITIAN SCHOOLS, AND THE "ÆSTHETIC" OF BAUMGARTEN
Cartesianism and imagination--Crousaz and André--The English: Locke, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and the Scottish School--Leibniz: "_petites perceptions_" and confused knowledge--Intellectualism of Leibniz--Speculations on language--J. C. Wolff--Demand for an organon of inferior knowledge--Alexander Baumgarten: his "Æsthetic"--Æsthetic as science of sensory consciousness--Criticism of judgements passed on Baumgarten--Intellectualism of Baumgarten--New names and old meanings
Vico as inventor of æsthetic science--Poetry and philosophy: imagination and intellect--Poetry and history--Poetry and language--Inductive and formalistic logic--Vico opposed to all former theories of poetry--Vico's judgements of the grammarians and linguists who preceded him--Influence of seventeenth-century writers on Vico--Æsthetic in the _Scienza Nuova_--Vico's mistakes--Progress still to be achieved
MINOR ÆSTHETIC DOCTRINES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The influence of Vico--Italian writers: A. Conti--Quadrio and Zanotti--M. Cesarotti--Bettinelli and Pagano--German disciples of Baumgarten: G. F. Meier--Confusions of Meier--M. Mendelssohn and other followers of Baumgarten--Vogue of Æsthetic--Eberhard and Eschenburg--J. G. Sulzer--K. H. Heydenreich--J. G. Herder--Philosophy of language
OTHER ÆSTHETIC DOCTRINES OF THE SAME PERIOD
Other writers of the eighteenth century: Batteux--The English: W. Hogarth--E. Burke--H. Home--Eclecticism and sensationalism: E. Platner--Fr. Hemsterhuis--Neo-Platonism and mysticism: Winckelmann--Beauty and lack of significance--Winckelmann's contradictions and compromises--A. R. Mengs--G. E. Lessing--Theorists of ideal Beauty--G. Spalletti and the characteristic--Beauty and the characteristic: Hirt, Meyer, Goethe
I. Kant--Kant and Vico--Identity of the concept of Art in Kant and Baumgarten--Kant's "Lectures"--Art in the _Critique of Judgment_--Imagination in Kant's system--The forms of intuition and the Transcendental Æsthetic--Theory of Beauty distinguished by Kant from that of Art--Mystical features in Kant's theory of Beauty
THE ÆSTHETIC OF IDEALISM: SCHILLER, SCHELLING, SOLGER, HEGEL
The _Critique of Judgment_ and metaphysical idealism--F. Schiller--Relations between Schiller and Kant--The æsthetic sphere as the sphere of Play--Æsthetic education--Vagueness and lack of precision in Schiller's Æsthetic--Schiller's caution and the rashness of the Romanticists--Ideas on Art: J. P. Richter--Romantic Æsthetic and idealistic Æsthetic--J. G. Fichte--Irony: Schlegel, Tieck, Novalis--F. Schelling--Beauty and character--Art and Philosophy--Ideas and the gods: Art and mythology--K. W. Solger--Fancy and imagination--Art, practice and religion--G. W. F. Hegel--Art in the sphere of absolute spirit--Beauty as sensible appearance of the Idea--Æsthetic in metaphysical idealism and Baumgartenism--Mortality and decay of art in Hegel's system