Randy Watson Professor Rankin EN304 27 July 2005 The Aesthetic Movement in Literature The subject of aesthetics was formally distinguished as an independent philosophical practice, in the 18th century, by German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. The word aesthetic was derived from the German word �sthetisch and the French esth�tique, (both spawned from the Greek word αισθητικός, meaning a perceiver or sensitive) and mainly aided Immanuel Kant�s translations; it meant �the science which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception.� Elsewhere Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten had translated the word to mean �criticism of taste.� Despite Kant�s attempts to correct Baumgarten it was his translation that survived. Thus, Baumgarten is credited with inventing the use of the term. The meaning of the word aesthetic can be seen more clearly by comparing it to its antonym, anaesthetic. If something is anaesthetic it tends to dull the senses or cause sleepiness. In contrast, aesthetic may be thought o....

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