Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 1; Volume 1000This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the general nature of art as a spiritual experience, distinguishes the beauty of art and the beauty of nature, and examines artistic genius and originality. Part II surveys the history of art from the ancient world through to the end of the eighteenth century, probing the meaning and significance of major works. Part III (in the second volume) deals individually with architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature; a rich array of examples makes vivid his exposition of his theory. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
PART I THE IDEA OF ARTISTIC BEAUTY OR THE IDEAL | 91 |
PART II DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEAL INTO THE PARTICULAR FORMS OF ART | 299 |
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Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume 1; Volume 1000 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,G. W. F. Hegel No preview available - 1998 |
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absolute abstract action activity actual Aeschylus allegory already animal appearance art-form artistic aspect becomes belongs Brahma bring character classical art collision colour Concept concrete configuration connection consciousness contrary Critique of Judgment Cronus determinacy determinate Divine element especially essence essential Eumenides everything example explicitly expression feeling finite finitude form of art freedom genuine gods Goethe Greek Greek mythology hand heart Hegel Hephaestus Herodotus higher honour human Idea Ideal ideal art Iliad imagination immediate independence individual infinite inherently inner interest inwardness kind living material matter meaning mode nature negative Nibelungenlied object opposition Ormuzd Pantheism Parsi particular passion pathos poet poetry precisely present production purely reality reconciliation relation religion remains representation romantic art satisfaction sculpture sense sensuous side situation Sophocles soul specific sphere spirit subject-matter subjective sublimity substantial symbolic symbolic art thing tion totality Trimurti true truth unity universal whole Zeus