James Beattie (Schriftsteller)

James Beattie (* 25. Oktober 1735 i​n Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, Schottland; † 18. August 1803 i​n Aberdeen) w​ar ein schottischer Philosoph u​nd Schriftsteller. Beatties Gedicht The Minstrel (1771) w​ar eines d​er frühesten Werke d​er englischen Romantik. Er gehörte z​u den Vertretern d​er Common-Sense-Philosophie. Seit 1786 w​ar er gewähltes Mitglied d​er American Philosophical Society.[1]

James Beattie

Werke
  • Original Poems and Translations (1760)
  • The Judgement of Paris (1765)
  • Poems on Several Subjects (1766)
  • An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770)
  • The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771/2) two volumes
  • Essays, on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. On poetry and music as they affect the mind. On laughter and ludicrous composition. On the utility of classical learning (1776)
  • Essays on Poetry (1778)
  • Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing (1779);
  • Poems on several occasions (1780)
  • Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783)
  • The Evidences of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly Stated (1786) 2 vols.
  • The theory of language. Part I. Of the origin and general nature of speech. Part II. Of universal grammer (1788)
  • Elements of Moral Science (1790–1793) 2 Bände
  • The Poetical Works of James Beattie (1831) hrsg. von A. Dyce
  • The poetical works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer (1868) hrsg. von Charles Cowden Clarke
  • James Beattie's Day-Book, 1773–1778 (1948) hrsg. von R. S. Walker
  • James Beattie's Diary (1948) hrsg. von R. S. Walker

Literatur
  • Karen Kloth: James Beatties ästhetische Theorien. Ihre Zusammenhänge mit der Aberdeener Schulphilosophie. Fink, München 1974 (zugl. Phil. Diss. Universität Münster, 1972)
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Einzelnachweise
  1. Member History: James Beattie. American Philosophical Society, abgerufen am 26. April 2018.
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