The thread of recognition philosophy, art, and nature in the German aesthetic tradition Jason Gaiger

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaiger, Jason, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, German.

Art and philosophy--Germany.

Art and philosophy.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Other Title:

Philosophy, art, and nature in the German aesthetic tradition

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press USA, 2026.

Oxford New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

Jason Gaiger explores the evolution of aesthetics in the German philosophical tradition from the mid eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Focusing on figures such as Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller, and Hegel, he examines how their ideas about art, nature, and imagination continue to shape aesthetic thought today. Rather than offering a straightforward history, however, the book unfolds as a series of close philosophical analyses that trace a 'thread of recognition' linking diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings of aesthetic experience. Central themes include the interplay of perception and reason, the delimitation of artistic media, the tension between imagination and representation, the unity and indeterminacy of landscape, the temporality of pictorial and sculptural viewing, and the moral and cognitive significance of natural beauty

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 25, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197917640

019791764X

9780192509154

0192509152

OCLC:

1599575978

Publisher Number:

CIPO000408938

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license