The accessibility of art in Germany underwent a fundamental change over the course of the 18th century. Aristocratic collectors opened their doors to the general public, and new museums were dedicated exclusively to art. This development parallels the concurrent development of aesthetics in philosophy and the conception of the autonomy of art. Its theoretical foundation was provided by Kant in his third critique with such completeness that the standards of beauty he worked out emerge as constitutive elements of the art (...) museum. The Romantic movement reinforced the trend in what proved to be an ambivalent way. The general accessibility of art was well suited to its transgression of boundaries, but it necessitated a new, less contingent mode of demarcation between the work of art and the observer. That became an occasion for »Romanticization« of both the artwork and its audience, demonstrated here by August Wilhelm Schlegel’s conversation on art Die Gemählde. It is further elucidated by Friedrich Schlegel’s Nachricht von den Gemählden in Paris and its echo in two texts published by Kleist: The novella Die Heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik and the essay on Caspar David Friedrich’s painting Mönch am Meer that was drafted by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim and radically modified by Kleist. (shrink)

I propose a metaphysical theory of mechanisms based on the notion of causation. In particular, I use causation to formulate existence, identity, and parthood conditions for mechanisms. These conditions provide a sound metaphysical basis for accounts of mechanistic explanation, mechanistic organization, and for more restrictive theories of mechanisms.

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Allgemeine einleitung. Vorsokratische philosophie. 6. aufl. 1. hälfte. Mit unterstüzung von dr. Franz Lorzing hrsg. von dr. Wilhelm Nestle. 2. hälfte. Hrsg. von dr. Wilhelm. Nestle. 1919-20.--2. t., abt. Sokrates und die Sokratiker. 5. aufl. (obraldruck) Mit einem anhang von dr. Ernst Hoffmann: Der gegenwärtige stand der Platon-forschung. 1922.--2. t., 2. abt. Aristoteles und die Alten peripatetlker. 4. aufl. (obraldruck) 1921.--3. t., 1 abt Die nacharistotellsche philosophie, 1. hälfte. 4. aufl., hrsg. von dr. Eduard Wellmann. 1909.--3. t., 2. (...) abt. Die nacharistotellsche philosophie. 2.hälfte. 4. aufl. 1903. (shrink)

Zhongguo ren de sheng huo zhi hui -- Dong ya : Zhongguo wen hua quan de xing cheng yu bian qian -- Ren yu cun zai.

Wundt untersucht in diesem Buch die Philosophie der einzelnen Nationen als Beitrag zum Weltkrieg. Nachdruck des Originals von 1915.