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pescina pescina
 
January 10, 2009 08:50 AM

Where can I download for free (or buy) "Aesthetica", by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten?

It can be found with a simple Google book search, but it's in Latin and I need an English translation.
http://books.google.com/books?id=iPVNLFAGznQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Aesthetica+intitle:Aesthetica+inauthor:alexander+inauthor:baumgarten&lr=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPP1,M1
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valz valz
 
 January 10, 2009 05:27 PM
Could not find exactly what you asked for so am including my search results and any suggestions I can think of not knowing your situation - they may or may not work for you. (Also, noticed that urls with accent marks are not live in this beta at the moment so need to snip and paste them into your browser window to find the sources).
I wonder if the best solution might be to find an online version of the text like this link:
http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Metaphysica_(Alexander_Gottlieb_Baumgarten)
in any language that is translated online, and use an automatic translation of the text like this one:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt
http://www.freetranslation.com/default.htm?tab=web

Here is a resource with free online books:
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

There are alternate spellings of the name and title making it harder to find.
However, I am not very hopeful you will find what you want as I searched the
world's biggest online bookstore below at amazon.com and it sounds like
only German, French and Italian language translations are or were being sold.
A few more ideas you might want to try:
Read it in German, French or Italian using a dictionary if needed
If you have an account at a research library ask this as a reference or interlibrary loan question.
Perhaps a professor/grad student that is a specialist would have their own translation if you are affiliated with such a program.
Once you translate it yourself perhaps get it published for others to access.
Perhaps try some variations in this huge library catalog and order it directly if possible or through your own library interlibrary loan department:
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list

Below various non-latin language versions of books - nothing found in English.

Language: German, Latin
Ästhetik 2 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-3787317738
by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Ästhetik-2-Alexander-Gottlieb-Baumgarten/dp/3787317732/
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21ycZFHsb8L._SS500_.jpg

bookstore in Netherlands selling part 1 but is it some other title or is the above one complete?
http://www.boekstra.nl/index.php?id=zoeken&q=baumgarten+alexander

Language: French (from amazon.ca listing)
Esthétique (Paperback)
by A.G. Baumgarten (Author), Jean-Yves Pranchère (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Esthétique-G-Baumgarten/dp/2851976060/

Language Notes
Text: German, Latin (translation) Language: German
These excerpts? Out of print a special order book search here are elsewhere, or interlibrary loan at library?
Theoretische Asthetik: Die grundlegenden Abschnitte aus der "Aesthetica" (1750/58) : Lateinisch-Deutsch (Philosophische Bibliothek) (German Edition) (Perfect Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/Theoretische-Asthetik-grundlegenden-Lateinisch-Deutsch-Philosophische/dp/3787305904/
also looks like similar volume also out of print:
http://www.amazon.com/Theoretische-Ästhetik-grundlegenden-Abschnitte-Aesthetica/dp/3787307850/

In Italian? Out of print.
http://www.amazon.com/estetica-Aesthetica-Alexander-Gottlieb-Baumgarten/dp/8877260424/

Source for most of above links at amazon.com :
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1231602688/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=1000&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Cp%5F27%3AAlexander%20Gottlieb%20Baumgarten&page=1

bestbookbuys: a search by author to compare book locations in bookstores:
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/search.jsp?isrc=b-search-srchbox&N=0&Ntk=All&Ntt=alexander+baumgarten

Creative Commons by annia316

Source(s):
http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Metaphysica_(Alexander_Gottlieb_Baumgarten)ht...
http://www.freetranslation.com/default.htm?tab=web
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Ästhetik-2-Alexander-Gottlieb-Baumgarten/dp/3787317732/
http://www.boekstra.nl/index.php?id=zoeken&q=baumgarten+alexander
http://www.amazon.com/Esthétique-G-Baumgarten/dp/2851976060/
http://www.amazon.com/Theoretische-Asthetik-grundlegenden-Lateinisch-Deutsc...
http://www.amazon.com/Theoretische-Ästhetik-grundlegenden-Abschnitte-Aesthetica/dp/3787307850/
http://www.amazon.com/estetica-Aesthetica-Alexander-Gottlieb-Baumgarten/dp/...
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/search.jsp?isrc=b-search-srchbox&N=0&a...



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pescina pescina
 
January 10, 2009 09:55 PM
Thanks. I was going to give a tip for this, because I know it's hard to find. VERY HARD, in fact. Then I clicked the wrong link when trying to increase the tip: "Just take me to my question" or something like that.
In aesthetics many people talk about Baumgarten and a couple of his works, but I doubt that more than a lucky few have actually read him directly, so, yes, I thought about translating it myself, but I need it for my thesis, where it would be only one reference among many. Perhaps I will convince someone at my school of doing the translation as his or her thesis, so the school publishes it in Spanish. Unless somebody else comes up with a rare source, I think I'll stick to one of your ideas, maybe read it in Italian or the original, in Latin.

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valz valz
 
January 18, 2009 11:04 AM - New Source
Whoever ends up translating this work into Spanish may be interested in reading further about this respected scholar - who built a successful academic career in part based on translating key works into Spanish:
José María Valverde English entry in encyclopedia britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/622522/Jose-Maria-Valverde
José María Valverde wikipedia entry in Spanish:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_María_Valverde
(copy above url into search engine as accent marks are not enabled yet)

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