What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses a methodology, epistemology, metaphysics, narratology, and ethics.
henever I have mentioned the topic of my research, the reactions of myconversation partners have been similar to that of my physiotherapist in theabove quote. There has been remarkable similarity across these commentsabout “misunderstandings”, from people of very different organisational set-tings and work profiles. Whether I have been talking to a childcare teacher,the university’s cante…