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The study presents the earliest commentaries on Bolzano’s treatise On the Concept of the Beautiful. Commentaries that emerged before 1908 consist of internal reviews by Franz Exner and Josef Jungmann, a review by Franz Ficker and two texts by Robert Zimmermann. All interpretations were instrumental, focusing primarily not on Bolzano’s theory but on Austrian university policy, court plans for philosophical studies, requirements for the practical utility of aesthetics and the personal interests of the authors. A key aspect of Bolzano’s theory, the concept of rule, was only commented on by Zimmermann in Geschichte der Aesthetik als philosophischer Wissenschaft. He endeavoured, with its help, to establish the Herbartian aesthetic theory in the history of aesthetics as its scientific peak.

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A text bringing for the first time a comprehensive survey of Němeček’s reflections on genius contained in all of his known published writings as well as in his lectures on aesthetics surviving in the handwritten student’s notes taken down by Peter Eduard Bolzano. A summary of Němeček’s views is followed by a review of their sources and inspirations. The study points to the relevance of anthropology textbooks and treatises for the time’s approaches to the thematization of genius. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study reconstructs František Xaver Němeček's concept of the sublime by examining notes on his lectures at the University of Prague taken by Peter Eduard Bolzano during the 1811-1812 academic year. After demonstrating how Němeček's concept deviates from Kant's in the Critique of Judgement, the study goes on to describe the relationship between the two. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study dealing with notes from the aesthetics lectures given at Prague University's Faculty of Arts in the academic year 1811/1812, taken by Peter Eduard Bolzano (1793-1818), the prematurely deceased brother of Bernard Bolzano. The study identifies as the lecturer František Xaver Němeček, a finding which singles the notes out as source material for an insight into the most comprehensive available version of the latter's theory of aesthetics. The contents of the individual lectures are then summed up and complemented by a list of aestheticians, artists and art works referred to in the notes. All of this is then set in a broader context of the given historical period, with a view to prospective detailed research into Němeček's contribution to aesthetics. The study demonstrates that Němeček's approach to aesthetics was still by and large cosmopolitan and universalistic rather than nationally oriented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay endeavours to cover and clarify the extraordinarily long and complicated approval process - unparalleled in the history of European aesthetics - of the first Austrian court-approved university textbook of aesthetics of local provenance, Franz Ficker's Aesthetik (1830). The detailed account of the negotiations preceding the approval is followed by general conclusions concerning the nature of Austrian aesthetics, the operation of Austrian universities, and Austrian university policy in the period preceding the March 1848 revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a summary of the main views in Dambeck's lectures on aesthetics on the basis of all known sources and compares the views thus obtained with views developed in German aesthetics in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, with the aim of finding their chief source and reintegrating them both into German aesthetics and, more narrowly, into the aesthetics taught at Prague University. Johann Heinrich Dambeck constructed his lecture series on the plan of Zschokke's textbook Ideen zur psychologischen Aesthetik (1793) which has never been taken into account in any other research on his lectures. The close link between Dambeck's lectures and this textbook compels us to revise the current understanding of the nature of their ideas. Dambeck has so far been most often unproblematically presented as an adherent and disseminator of Kant's and Schiller's ideas about aesthetics in the Bohemian Lands. The key textbook on which he bases his university lecture series is, however, intentionally un-Kantian. Zschokke's Ideen is part of the psychological-anthropological stream of Late-Enlightenment German aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines contemporaneous reports about two versions of lectures in aesthetics, which were given at Prague University by Johann Heinrich Dambeck (1774-1820). They were recorded by the publisher Joseph Adolf Hanslik (1785-1859) in a manuscript summary in 1819 and a two-volume book published in 1822 and 1823. The article presents a comparison of the two sources in order to determine which parts of the commentary originate with Dambeck and which with Hanslik. Considering the large scope and the bibliographical nature of the chief part of the appendices to the book, the author of the article concludes that they originated not with Dambeck, but with Hanslik. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the reception of the literary work "Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the 'Sublime and Beautiful'," by Edmund Burke in Germany in the 18th century based on lectures on aesthetics by writer August Gottlieb Meißner in Prague. It tackles the English original of the work in Leipzig and Berlin, Germany and the increase in intellectual interest in the literary work in the northern maritime centers of German culture.

The article examines the methods of teaching aesthetics in Czech Republic. It states that the teaching of aesthetics at universities began as part of the university reforms of Maria Theresa when Karl Heinrich Seibt was appointed to the Chair of the Schone Wissenschaften and Moral Philosophy at Prague University in 1973. It indicates that a course in aesthetics was a preliminary requirement for studies in the faculties of Theology, Law, and Medicine until 1791. It also notes that lectures in aesthetics were given intermittently in the second oldest university in the country.

Focuses on the concepts of language and poetry by Edmund Burke and Moses Mendelssohn. Difference between drawing of a thing existing in reality and its verbal description; Conveyance of affection of the mind through words; Examination on the contrast between poetry and painting.