Ralf Simon
8Rhetorik und Philosophie in der Frühgeschichte der philosophischen Ästhetik
Abstract: Baumgarten understands the project of philosophical aesthetics in two dimensions: as a theory of sensibility and as a theory of art. If both dimensions are connected, the theoretical tradition of the 18th century would call the result philosophical aesthetics. In Baumgarten rhetoric has the function to constitute form. Herder develops a rhetorical theory of sensibility, from which he derives a classification of art forms. Moritz’ aesthetic emerges in an act of negating terms of rhetoric. In Kant the trope of hypotyposis appears in a transcendental function and refers to the aesthetic use of schematism. Schiller aligns his expansion of aesthetics ...
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