Carl Heinrich Seibts Prager Vorlesungen aus den Schönen Wissenschaften.Zu den Anfängen der universitären Ästhetik in Böhmen

• Authors: Tomáš Hlobil

Title variants

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CARL HEINRICH SEIBT’S PRAGUE LECTURES ON THE SCHOENE WISSENSCHAFTEN: THE BEGINNINGS OF AESTHETICS IN BOHEMIA

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

Carl Heinrich Seibt (1735–1806) was the founder of modern Bohemian aesthetics, that is, thinking about taste, beauty, and fine art, which he developed in a living language. Yet little is known about the content of his lectures on the Schöne Wissenschaften or his views on aesthetics. The following article aims to fill this gap in four respects. It explains why the topic has so far been neglected; it gives a summary of the now known sources from which we may draw our knowledge of the topics of art theory, the individual kinds of art, and general aesthetics, with which Seibt was concerned in his lectures. It presents the standpoints which he held in them, and it puts them into the European context of the period, particularly German aesthetics. It aims primarily to determine whether the accessible sources contain traces of influences other than those of his teachers at Leipzig, who are mentioned in the secondary literature: Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769), including the important authorities recognized by them, in particular Charles Batteux (1713–1780). The article shows that Seibt’s views were also influenced by Moses Mendelssohn and Johann Joachim Winckelmann, representatives of a generation of German aestheticians younger than his teachers.

Keywords

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Seibt C. H.; history of aesthetics; the Schöne Wissenschaften; German aesthetics; art theory; Gottsched J. Ch.; Gellert Ch. F.; Batteux Ch.; Mendelssohn M.; Winckelmann J. J.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 172-193

Contributors

author

Tomáš Hlobil

• Department of Aesthetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic