![]() ![]() Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762) is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics, yet his Metaphysica provided the model of philosophical instruction for thinkers such as Mendelssohn, Abbt, Kant, Herder, Eberhard and Maimon. The release of Baumgarten's major work in English marks a watershed in the study of the German Enlightenment. ![]() It’s been nearly three hundred years since the birth of Alexander Baumgarten, and in honour of this occasion we’re proud to be publishing Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant’s Elucidations, Selected Notes and Related Materials, the first English translation of the most important textbook on metaphysics in the German tradition prior to Immanuel Kant. ![]()
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