Aesthetics, Physiology, and Psychology (Göttingen 1844–1854)
Aesthetics, Physiology, and Psychology (Göttingen 1844–1854)
Chapter 4 deals with Lotze’s aesthetics, physiology and psychology as he formulated them in his first decade in Göttingen. The first part attempts to explain Lotze’s aesthetics as an attempt to revive a romantic aesthetics. The general principles of Lotze’s Allgemeine Physiologie are discussed because they offer a clear conspectus of Lotze’s thinking about the philosophy of physiology. There is also a discussion of the chief principles and context of Lotze’s psychology, which played a central role in his thinking at this time.
Keywords: Neo-romanticism, formalism, beauty, meaning, signficance, teleology, spiritualism, idealism
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