Hegel and aesthetics / edited by William Maker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maker, William.

Hegel Society of America. Meeting 1996 : Keystone, Colo.)

Series:

SUNY series in Hegelian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Ästhetik--English.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 209 pages ; 23cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

I Art and the Absolute Revisited: The Neglect of Hegel's Aesthetics / William Desmond 1

II Hegel's Concept of the Dissolution of Art / Carl Rapp 13

III Hegel's Aesthetic and the Possibility of Art Criticism / Brian K. Etter 31

IV Art as a Mode of Thought: Hegel's Aesthetics and the Origins of Modernism / Jere Surber 45

V Presidential Address: Hegel and the Art of Painting / Stephen Houlgate 61

VI The Spirit of Gravity: Architecture and Externality / David Kolb 83

VII The Challenge of Architecture to Hegel's Aesthetics / Richard Dien Winfield 97

VIII Hegel and the Spirit of Comedy: Der Geist der stets verneint / Stephen C. Law 113

IX Squaring the Romantic Circle: Hegel's Critique of Schlegel's Theories of Art / Judith Norman 131

X Modernity and the Crisis of Aesthetic Representation in Hegel's Early Writings / Martin Gammon 145

XI Aesthetic Education and the Aesthetic State: Hegel's Response to Schiller / Andrew G. Fiala 171

XII The Logic of Art: Beauty and Nature / Edward Halper 187.

Notes:

Essays first presented at the 14th Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America, held Oct. 18-20, 1996 in Keystone, Colo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791445518

0791445526

OCLC:

43599086