Download or read book Diotima's Children written by Frederick C. Beiser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diotima's Children is the first comprehensive re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics as it prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This tradition is of the greatest historical importance because it gave birth to modern aesthetics, art criticism, and art history.