The End of Art : Readings in a Rumor after Hegel / Eva Geulen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geulen, Eva, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The End in the Meantime

2. Hegel Without End

3. Nietzsche’s Retrograde Motion

4. Counterplay: Benjamin

5. Afterthought: Adorno

6. The Same End and the Other Beginning: Heidegger

7. Epilogue: “That Mysterious Yearning Toward the Chasm”

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1993-1

OCLC:

1294426239