Baumgarten founded aesthetics as the science of sensuous cognition, connecting beauty, imagination, sensuous perfection, art, epistemology, and the autonomy of aesthetic knowledge.
Baumgarten and Kant define two decisive thresholds of aesthetics through sensuous cognition, perfection, judgement, free play, common sense, genius, aesthetic ideas, and the sublime.
Walter Benjamin connects aura, singularity, cult value, exhibition value, technical reproduction, photography, cinema, shock, politics, and modern visual perception.
Bildung, taste, judgement, genius, Erlebnis, aesthetic differentiation, artistic truth, and play define Gadamer’s critique of the subjectivisation of the experience of art.
