Classic and romantic German aesthetics / edited by J.M. Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernstein, J. M., editor.

Series:

Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.

Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, German.

Arts, Classical--Aesthetics.

Arts, Classical.

Arts, Classical--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xli, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Classic & Romantic German Aesthetics

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 2002 volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, together with translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. In a philosophical introduction J. M. Bernstein traces the development of aesthetics from its still rationalist and mimetic construction in Lessing, through the optimistic construal of art and/or beauty as the appearance of human freedom in the work of Schiller, to Hölderlin's darker vision of art as the memory of a lost unity, and the variations of that theme - of an impossible striving after the lost ideal - which are found in the work of Schlegel and Novalis.

Contents:

Aesthetica in nuce : a rhapsody in Cabbalistic prose (1762) / J.G. Hamann

Laocoön : an essay on the limits of painting and poetry (1766) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

From 'On the artistic imitation of the beautiful' (1788) / Karl Phillip Moritz

'Kallias or Concerning beauty : letters to Gottfried Körner' (1793) / Friedrich Schiller

'Oldest programme for a system of German idealism' (1796) ; 'Letter to Hegel, 26 January 1795' ; 'Being judgement possibility' (1795) ; 'The significance of tragedy' (1802) ; 'Remarks on Oedipus' (1803) ; Friedrich Hölderlin

From Miscellaneous remarks (1797) ; 'Monologue' ; 'Dialogues' (1798) ; 'On Goethe' (1798) ; 'Studies in the visual arts' (1799) ; Novalis

From 'Critical fragments' (1797) ; From 'Athenaeum fragments' (1798) ; From 'Ideas' (1800) ; 'On Goethe's Meister' (1798) ; 'Letter about the novel' (1799) ; 'On incomprehensibility' (1800) ; Friedrich Schlegel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13124-3

1-280-43354-X

0-511-80373-7

1-139-14734-X

0-511-17846-8

0-511-06376-8

0-511-05743-1

0-511-33056-1

0-511-07222-8

OCLC:

437069013