Abstract

In her fine monograph, Kunst als Erkenntnis, Ursula Franke remarked that "Baumgarten ist sich der Schwerfälligkeit seines Stils offenbar bewußt gewesen." Not the least because of difficulties with his Latin style, Baumgarten's work has been little researched, despite the commonplace that he "founded" the science of aesthetics. These precise, but nonetheless quite readable, translations by Heinz Paetzold and Rudolf Schweizer should remedy this situation.