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 vii References in parentheses in the text refer to the last cited source. For some sources, I have supplied alternative locators such as section or paragraph numbers as well as, after a semicolon, page numbers . The following abbreviations refer to frequently cited sources: Aesthetics: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Aesthetica—Ästhetik, ed. and German trans. Dagmar Mirbach. Hamburg: Meiner, 2007. “Baumgarten”: Johann Gottfried Herder, “Begründung einer Ästhetik in der Auseinandersetzung mit Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten” (“Foundations for an Aesthetics in Critical Engagement with Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten”), in Werke, vol. 1, Frühe Schriften 1764–1772, ed. Ulrich Gaier. Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1985, 651–94. BGE: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future , trans. Judith Norman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. BT: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, trans. Ronald Speirs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. CJ: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987. Cognition: Johann Gottfried Herder, On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul: Observations and Dreams, in Philosophical Writings, trans. Michael N. Forster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Daybreak: Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, trans. R. J. Hollingdale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Discipline: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1979. Discourse: René Descartes, Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences—Discourse on the Method, in The Philosophical Writings of René Descartes, trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984–85, vol. 1, 111–51. Abbr ev iations viii ‡ Abbreviations “Energie”: Johann Georg Sulzer, “Von der Kraft (Energie) in den Werken der schönen Künste,” in Vermischte philosophische Schriften. Leipzig: Weidmann und Reich, 1773; repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1974. Enquiry: Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, ed. Adam Phillips. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. “Fourth Grove”: Johann Gottfried Herder, “Critical Forests, or Reflections on the Art and Science of the Beautiful: Fourth Grove, On Riedel’s Theory of the Beaux Arts,” in Selected Writings on Aesthetics, trans. Gregory Moore. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006, 199. Fragments, 1880: Friedrich Nietzsche, “Nachgelassene Fragmente” of Early 1880, in Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch/de Gruyter 1988, vol. 9, 9–33. GS: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, trans. Josefine Nauckhoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. “Landschaft”: Joachim Ritter, “Landschaft: Zur Funktion des Ästhetischen in der modernen Gesellschaft,” in Ritter, Subjektivität. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 141–64. Meditations: René Descartes, Meditationes de prima philosophia—Meditations on First Philosophy, in The Philosophical Writings of René Descartes, trans. John Cottingham , Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984–85, vol. 2, 3–62. Monadology: G. W. Leibniz, Monadology, ed. Nicholas Rescher. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. “Monument”: Johann Gottfried Herder, “A Monument to Baumgarten,” in Selected Writings on Aesthetics, trans. Gregory Moore. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006, 41–50. Nietzsche: Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, vol. 1, The Will to Power as Art, trans. David Farrell Krell. London: Routledge, 1981, and vol. 4, Nihilism, trans. Frank A. Capuzzi. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1982. Poetry: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Reflections on Poetry—Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus, trans. Karl Aschenbrenner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954. “Rhapsody”: Moses Mendelssohn, “Rhapsody or Additions to the Letters on Sentiments ,” in Philosophical Writings, trans. Daniel O. Dahlstrom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 131–68. RRUM: Friedrich Nietzsche, “Reconnaissance Raids of an Untimely Man,” in TI, 43–75. Rules: René Descartes, Regulae ad directionem ingenii—Rules for the Direction of the Mind, in The Philosophical Writings of René Descartes, trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984–85, vol. 1, 7–78. TI: Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, trans. Duncan Large. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ...

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