Bibliograph

Introductory lectures on aesthetics, Hegel ; translated by Bernard Bosanquet ; edited with an introduction and commentary by Michael Inwood

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Introductory lectures on aesthetics, Hegel ; translated by Bernard Bosanquet ; edited with an introduction and commentary by Michael Inwood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Introductory lectures on aesthetics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1110782305

Responsibility statement

Hegel ; translated by Bernard Bosanquet ; edited with an introduction and commentary by Michael Inwood

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

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 artistic beauty -- Historical deduction of the true idea of art in modern philosophy -- Division of the subject

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