David E. Wellbery

Lessing's Laocoon

Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521109390
• ISBN-10: 0521109396
• Artikelnr.: 26056897

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Framework of Enlightenment semiotics: Christian Wolff
2. Semiotics and aesthetics in the work of Baumgarten, Meier and Mendelssohn
3. Lessing's Laocoon
Concluding Remarks: Enlightenment aesthetics from the standpoint of today
Notes
Index.