In a message dated 11/3/08 4:48:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I know very little about Baumgarten's personal life; following Heidegger, I
> tend to think that the only things one needs to know in order to consider
> another's work is that he was born, he wrote, and then he died. Sometimes
> the attached dates are important. I am not too interested in influence,
all
> things told.
>
In this case it gets interesting. I searched again in German this time-silly
not to think of it first- and his brother was Sigmund Jacob Baumgarten,big
time Pietist theologian at Halle, where Baumgarten was also. Alexander's
concept
of aesthetics takes into account the Pietist view of abstract things
having a physical being and apparently tries to get it to work
logically,as far
as I can make out. At any rate, yes, his thinking about aesthetics was
influenced by Pietism which as I said is pretty interesting,since one can
get a
little closer to what he meant with some concentration on Pietism.
I can't quite tell whether the Pietists had actual auras involved in
the objectification of their religious feeling,there seems to have been some
kind of glow involved. What they called it is the problem,again the modern
texts
describing things use aura and the Pietists may not have. They felt there
was some sort of effect evident if the strength and purity of the feeling
was
forceful enough.
KAte Sullivan
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