Baumgarten Corruption: from Sense to Nonsense in Art and Philosophy
Author: Dixon, Robert
Hardback; Book; Bibliography, Index 240 pages Published: July 1995 Pluto Press Ltd
ISBN: 0745309933 This item non-returnable. Order may not be canceled.
In 1750 Alexander Baumgarten corrupted the Greek for sensible when he introduced the word aesthetic into the philosopher's discourse on beauty and taste. This book reveals the Baumgarten corruption as the beginning of a great philosophical confusion, a lapse of reason into nonsense.

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