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The Force of an IdeaImage Composition as an Aesthetic–Epistemological Problem in Wolff’s Empirical Psychology

The Force of an Idea: Image Composition as an Aesthetic–Epistemological Problem in Wolff’s... [A crucial epistemological question in Christian Wolff’s empirical psychology directly involves aesthetics: how does the representation of something take place? In the Psychologia empirica, Wolff explains what a representation is by comparing it with the formation of a picture or a sculpture. This conception of an image as a space-time ordering of empirical data is of great importance to Wolff’s theory of knowledge, but the link between representation and pleasure is of no less importance to his philosophy. These two aspects of his psychology—the image as a picture or a sculpture, and the representation as a pleasant anticipation of the object of desire—provide the foundation for a vigorous aesthetics, although the name of this discipline did not exist before Baumgarten, and they play an important role in the establishment of the idea of the autonomy of the image, thus calling into question the conception of mimesis as mere imitation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Force of an IdeaImage Composition as an Aesthetic–Epistemological Problem in Wolff’s Empirical Psychology

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 50)
Editors: Araujo, Saulo de Freitas; Pereira, Thiago Constâncio Ribeiro; Sturm, Thomas
Suzuki, Márcio; Spezzapria, Mario
The Force of an Idea — Jul 17, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-74434-2
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139 –151
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-74435-9_9
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Abstract

[A crucial epistemological question in Christian Wolff’s empirical psychology directly involves aesthetics: how does the representation of something take place? In the Psychologia empirica, Wolff explains what a representation is by comparing it with the formation of a picture or a sculpture. This conception of an image as a space-time ordering of empirical data is of great importance to Wolff’s theory of knowledge, but the link between representation and pleasure is of no less importance to his philosophy. These two aspects of his psychology—the image as a picture or a sculpture, and the representation as a pleasant anticipation of the object of desire—provide the foundation for a vigorous aesthetics, although the name of this discipline did not exist before Baumgarten, and they play an important role in the establishment of the idea of the autonomy of the image, thus calling into question the conception of mimesis as mere imitation.]

Published: Jul 17, 2021

Keywords: Christian Wolff; Image; Aesthetics; Epistemology; Empirical psychology

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