Introductory lectures on aesthetics
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Introductory lectures on aesthetics
（Penguin classics）
Penguin Books, 2004
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Einleitung in die Ästhetik
The introduction to Hegel's philosophy of fine art
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Einleitung in die Ästhetik
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This translation first published as "The introduction to Hegel's philosophy of fine art" 1886 -- t.p. verso
This edition first published 1993, reprinted with a new chronology and further reading 2004 -- t.p. verso
Chronology: p. xxxvii-xxxviii
Further reading: p. xxxix-xl
Description and Table of Contents
Description
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, had compromised the immediacy of man's relationship with reality, and ironic detachment had alienated him from his deepest feelings. Hegel's Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics were delivered in Berlin in the 1820s and stand today as a passionately argued work that challenged the ability of art to respond to the modern world.
Table of Contents
- The range of aesthetic defined, and some objections against the philosophy of art refuted
- methods of science applicable to beauty and art
- the conception of artisitc beauty
- historical deduction of the true idea of art in modern philosophy
- division of the subject.
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