The Origins of modern critical thought : German aesthetic and literary criticism from Lessing to Hegel / edited by David Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simpson, David, 1951-

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, German--18th century.

Aesthetics, German.

Aesthetics, German--19th century.

Criticism--Germany.

Criticism.

Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Germany.

Physical Description:

ix, 449 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Contents:

Part I Lessing

1 From Laocoon

2 Letter to Nicolai

Part II Herder

3 Extract from Correspondence on the Ossian and the Songs of the Ancient People

5 Extracts from Shakespeare

Part III Kant

5 Selections from the Critique of Judgement

Part IV Schiller

6 From On the Aesthetic Education of Man

7 From On the Naive and Sentimental Poetry

Part V Friedrich Schlegel

8 On Incomprehensibility

9 From Critical Fragments

10 From Athenäum Fragments

11 From Ideas

12 From On Goethe's 'Meister'

13 From Letter About the Novel

Part VI Fichte

14 From On the Nature of the Scholar

Part VII Schelling

15 Conclusion to System of Transcendental Idealism

16 From Philosophy of Art

17 On Dante in Relation to Philosophy

Part VIII A. W. Schlegel

18 From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Part IX Novalis

19 Monologue

Part X Goethe

20 From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

21 From Winckelmann

Part XI Jean Paul Richter

22 From School for Aesthetics

Part XII Solger

23 From Erwin

Part XIII Schopenhauer

24 From The World as Will and Representation

Part XIV Hegel

25 From Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 441-449.

ISBN:

0521350042

0521359023

OCLC:

18321565