Феминистская критика А. Баумгартена...
In this chapter, I intend to reconsider Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s account of the “happy aesthetician” (felix aestheticus) using Sara Ahmed’s critique of happiness and the character of the feminist killjoy. Ultimately, I intend to perform a killjoy reading of Baumgarten’s texts by illustrating the ways that Baumgarten fails to define or thematize happiness—so much so that we must read the “happiness” of the happy aesthetician as a subversive character, perhaps even against Baumgarten’s own reliance on harmony and agreement in the happy aesthetician’s beautiful thinking
In this chapter, I intend to reconsider Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s account of the “happy aesthetician” (felix aestheticus) using Sara Ahmed’s critique of happiness and the character of the feminist killjoy. Ultimately, I intend to perform a killjoy reading of Baumgarten’s texts by illustrating the ways that Baumgarten fails to define or thematize happiness—so much so that we must read the “happiness” of the happy aesthetician as a subversive character, perhaps even against Baumgarten’s own reliance on harmony and agreement in the happy aesthetician’s beautiful thinking