Art of the Modern Age : Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger / Jean-Marie Schaeffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaeffer, Jean-Marie, Author.

Contributor:

Rendall, Steven, Contributor.

Series:

New French Thought Series ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.) : 2 tables, 6 line illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.Jean-Marie Schaeffer, one of France's leading aestheticians, explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger to show that these diverse thinkers shared a common approach to art, which he calls the ";speculative theory."; According to this theory, art offers a special kind of intuitive, quasi-mystical knowledge, radically different from the rational knowledge acquired by science. This view encouraged theorists to consider artistic geniuses the high-priests of humanity, creators of works that reveal the invisible essence of the world. Philosophers came to regard inexpressibility as the aim of art, refused to consider second-tier creations genuine art, and helped to create conditions in which the genius was expected to shock, puzzle, and mystify the public. Schaeffer shows that this speculative theory helped give birth to romanticism, modernism, and the avant-garde, and paved the way for an unfortunate divorce between art and enjoyment, between ";high art"; and popular art, and between artists and their public.Rejecting the speculative approach, Schaeffer concludes by defending a more tolerant theory of art that gives pleasure its due, includes popular art, tolerates less successful works, and accounts for personal tastes.";[A] remarkable work. [Schaeffer's] writing is governed by . the ideals of clarity and consequence, the ideas of logic, truth, and evidence. Schaeffer is so precise and unrelenting a philosophical critic that one wonders how some of the philosophies he anatomizes here can possibly survive the operation.";--From the foreword by Arthur C. Danto

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword: The Speculative Philosophers of Art

Introduction

Part One: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS?

CHAPTER 1. Kantian Prolegomena to an Analytic Aesthetics

Part Two: THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART

CHAPTER 2. The Birth of the Speculative Theory of Art

CHAPTER 3 The System of Art (Hegel)

CHAPTER 4. Ecstatic Vision or Cosmic Fiction?

CHAPTER 5. Art as the Thought of Being (Heidegger)

CONCLUSION. What the Speculative Tradition Misunderstood

Notes

Index of Names

Index of Concepts

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

9780691259536

0691259534

OCLC:

1412008364