History of Western Aesthetics (3)

Author: Fan Mingsheng
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Publish Date: 1999-12-01
Features: In the history of Western aesthetics, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are a period with the longest time span, yet relatively weak in existing research achievements. Baumgarten's Aesthetics defines aesthetics as the science of sensitive cognition, the theory of free arts, the epistemology of class hierarchy, and the art of thinking and symbolizing beauty. According to this standard, except for the symbolic tradition of medieval exegesis to poetics and the theory of free arts that echoes the art philosophy popular during the Renaissance, there was essentially no aesthetics from the 5th to the late 16th century over a thousand years.