Hegel On Art

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438400921

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Art and the Absolute by William Desmond Pdf

Art and the Absolute restores Hegel's aesthetics to a place of central importance in the Hegelian system. In so doing, it brings Hegel into direct relation with the central thrust of contemporary philosophy. The book draws on the astonishing scope and depths of Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, exploring the multifaceted issue of art and the absolute. Why does Hegel ascribe absoluteness to art? What can such absoluteness mean? How does it relate to religion and philosophy? How does Hegel's view of art illuminate the contemporary absence of the absolute? Art and the Absolute argues that these aesthetic questions are not mere theoretical conundrums for abstract analysis. It argues that Hegel's understanding of art can provide an indispensable hermeneutic relevant to current controversies. Art and the Absolute explores the intricacies of Hegel's aesthetic thought, communicating its contemporary relevance. It shows how for Hegel art illuminates the other areas of significant human experience such as history, religion, politics, literature. Against traditional, closed views, the result is a challenge to re-read Hegel's aesthetic philosophy.

Author : Stephen Houlgate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015069300807

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Hegel and the Arts by Stephen Houlgate Pdf

That aesthetics is central to Hegel's philosophical enterprise is not widely acknowledged, nor has his significant contribution to the discipline been truly appreciated. Some may be familiar with his theory of tragedy and his (supposed) doctrine of the "end of art," but many philosophers and writers on art pay little or no attention to his lectures on aesthetics. The essays in this collection, all but one written specifically for this volume, aim to raise the profile of Hegel's aesthetic theory by showing in detail precisely why that theory is so powerful. Writing from various perspectives and not necessarily aligned with Hegel's position, the contributors demonstrate that Hegel's lectures on aesthetics constitute one of the richest reservoirs of ideas about the arts, their history, and their future that we possess. Addressing a range of important topics, the essays examine the conceptual bases of Hegel's organization of his aesthetics, his treatment of various specific arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and tragedy), and several of the most famous issues in the literature--including the "end of art" thesis, the relation between art and religion, and the vexed relationship between Hegel and the romantics. Together they shed light on the profound reflections on art contained in Hegel's philosophy and also suggest ways in which his aesthetics might resonate well beyond the field of philosophical aesthetics, perhaps beyond philosophy itself.

Author : Benjamin Rutter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139489782

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Hegel on the Modern Arts by Benjamin Rutter Pdf

Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensability to Hegel's conception of modernity; he then seeks to reorient discussion toward the distinctive values of painting, poetry, and the novel. Working carefully through Hegel's four lecture series on aesthetics, he identifies the expressive possibilities particular to each medium. Thus, Dutch genre scenes animate the everyday with an appearance of vitality; metaphor frees language from prose; and Goethe's lyrics revive the banal routines of love with imagination and wit. Rutter's important study reconstructs Hegel's view not only of modern art but of modern life and will appeal to philosophers, literary theorists, and art historians alike.

Author : Jack Kaminsky
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789124323

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Hegel on Art by Jack Kaminsky Pdf

Professor Kaminsky’s lucid exposition is, surprisingly, the first attempt in English to deal extensively and critically with Hegel’s views on art, as outlined in his difficult volumes on that subject. Hegel on Art thus performs a needed service for those interested in either the philosophy or the history of the fine arts. Hegel’s idealistic metaphysics was the last European endeavor to construct a universal philosophical system on the traditional pattern, and to modern readers it can easily appear more imposing than useful. But in his examination of art, according to Professor Kaminsky, the German philosopher became “the most empirical of the empiricists,” and his observations can be valuable to us quite independent of our commitment to his metaphysics. Moreover, as Professor Kaminsky shows, Hegel’s metaphysical framework does give him an advantage not available under the rigorous skepticism of today’s positivist or symbolist: he can recognize that art mirrors the world of action, and so can provide it with objective validity. As the author concludes in Hegel’s defense: “It may well be that only art can be used to communicate the important episodes that happen to us or others....Without art, we lose one of our great sources of information as to who we are and what we ought to do.” “[Kaminsky] succeeds in the difficult task of summarizing Hegel’s aesthetics in a clear, well-balanced text which follows the historical lines set down by the philosopher. His work is the most extensive study of the subject available in English.”—Library Journal

Author : Lydia L. Moland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190847326

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Hegel's Aesthetics by Lydia L. Moland Pdf

Hegel is known as "the father of art history," yet recent scholarship has overlooked his contributions. This is the first comprehensive interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of art in English in thirty years. In a new analysis of Hegel's notorious "end of art" thesis, Hegel's Aesthetics shows the indispensability of Hegel's aesthetics for understanding his philosophical idealism and introduces a new claim about his account of aesthetic experience. In a departure from previous interpretations, Lydia Moland argues for considering Hegel's discussion of individual arts--architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry--on their own terms, unlocking new insights about his theories of perception, feeling, selfhood, and freedom. This new approach allows Hegel's philosophy to engage with modern aesthetic theories and opens new possibilities for applying Hegel's aesthetics to contemporary art. Moland further elucidates his controversial analysis of symbolic, classical, and romantic art through clarifying Hegel's examples of each. By incorporating newly available sources from Hegel's lectures on art, this book widely expands our understanding of the particular artworks Hegel discusses as well as the theories he rejects. Hegel's Aesthetics further situates his arguments in the intense philosophizing about art among his contemporaries, including Kant, Lessing, Herder, Schelling, and the Schlegel brothers. Ultimately, the book offers a rich vision of the foundation of his ideas about art and the range of their application, confirming Hegel as one of the most important theorists of art in the history of philosophy.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCSC:32106016779487

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The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465592736

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The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015000943655

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Hegel on the Arts by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,G. W. F. Hegel
Publisher : OUP UK
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198238164

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Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,G. W. F. Hegel Pdf

This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience, distinguishes the beauty of art and the beauty of nature, and examines artistic genius and originality. Part II surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the end of the eighteenth century, probing the meaning and significance of major works. Part III (in the second volume) deals individually with architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature; a rich array of examples makes vivid his exposition of his theory.

Author : Paul A. Kottman,Michael Squire
Publisher : Brill Fink
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3770562852

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The Art of Hegel's Aesthetics by Paul A. Kottman,Michael Squire Pdf

This volume explores one of modernity?s most profound and far-reaching philosophies of art: the Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik, delivered by Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel in the 1820s. The book has two overriding objectives: first, to ask how Hegel?s work illuminates specific periods and artworks in light of contemporary art-historical discussions; second, to explore how art history helps us make better sense and use of Hegelian aesthetics.00In bringing together a range of internationally acclaimed critical voices, the volume establishes an important disciplinary bridge between aesthetics and art history. Given the recent resurgence of interest in ?global? art history, and calls for more comparative approaches to ?visual culture?, contributors ask what role Hegel has played within the field ? and what role he could play in the future. What can a historical treatment of art accomplish? How should we explain the ?need? for certain artistic forms at different historical junctures? Has art history been ?Hegelian? without fully acknowledging it? Indeed, have art historians shirked some of the fundamental questions that Hegel raised?

Author : Stefan Bird-Pollan,Vladimir Marchenkov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350122710

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Hegel's Political Aesthetics by Stefan Bird-Pollan,Vladimir Marchenkov Pdf

What is the role of art in modern society? To what extent are the beautiful and the morally good intertwined? Hegel's Political Aesthetics explores Hegel's take on these ever-relevant philosophical questions and investigates three key themes: art's contribution to modern ethical life, the loss of art's authority in modern ethical life and ways of thinking beyond Hegel's analysis of art's role in society. The aesthetic is explored through the lens of German Idealism from Kant to Hegel, ultimately placing ethics and morality at the forefront of this debate. The authors explore Hegel's take on Kant's conception by historicizing what it means to be responsible to others, which for Hegel means being free within the norms of society, within what he calls ethical life. As a set of concrete social arrangements designed for finite human beings, however, ethical life falls short of actualizing freedom absolutely. The themes in this volume are motivated by a central ambivalence in Hegel's thinking about modernity. The question of freedom sits at the forefront of this text, alongside the relation between art and the spirit. This book will be of particular interest to philosophers of aesthetics, politics and ethics.

Author : William Maker
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791445526

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Hegel and Aesthetics by William Maker Pdf

Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics present a systematic and historical overview of the nature and development of art in light of its meaning and philosophical significance. This book considers Hegel's aesthetics from a variety of perspectives. With a strong and clear introduction by William Maker, the individual essays address Hegel's treatment of music, painting, comedy, and architecture, as well as his earlier writings on art, his relations to Schiller and to Schlegel, his treatment of romanticism, the place of aesthetics in the system, and his controversial claims about the overcoming of art. Several perspectives focus specifically on the contemporary relevance of Hegel's aesthetics in light of developments in art since his time, and especially in connection with modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction.

Author : Eva Geulen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804744246

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The End of Art by Eva Geulen Pdf

Since Hegel, the idea of an end of art has become a staple of aesthetic theory. This book analyzes its role and its rhetoric in Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger in order to account for the topic's enduring persistence. In addition to providing a general overview of the main thinkers of post-Idealist German aesthetics, the book explores the relationship between tradition and modernity. For despite the differences that distinguish one philosopher's end of art from another's, all authors treated here turn the end of art into an occasion to thematize and to reflect on the very thing that modernism cannot or should not be: tradition. As a discourse, the end of art is one of our modern traditions.

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 052180521X

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art by Richard Eldridge Pdf

Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest. His accessible study will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the relation between thought and art.

Author : Colo.) Hegel Society of America Meeting 1996 (Keystone,Hegel Society of America. Meeting
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791445518

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Hegel and Aesthetics by Colo.) Hegel Society of America Meeting 1996 (Keystone,Hegel Society of America. Meeting Pdf

Leading scholars consider Hegel's philosophy of art and its contemporary significance.