Hegel's Political Aesthetics: Art in Modern SocietyStefan Bird-Pollan, Vladimir Marchenkov What is the role of art in modern society? To what extent are the beautiful and the morally good intertwined? Hegel's Political Aesthetics explores Hegel's take on these ever-relevant philosophical questions and investigates three key themes: art's contribution to modern ethical life, the loss of art's authority in modern ethical life and ways of thinking beyond Hegel's analysis of art's role in society. The aesthetic is explored through the lens of German Idealism from Kant to Hegel, ultimately placing ethics and morality at the forefront of this debate. The authors explore Hegel's take on Kant's conception by historicizing what it means to be responsible to others, which for Hegel means being free within the norms of society, within what he calls ethical life. As a set of concrete social arrangements designed for finite human beings, however, ethical life falls short of actualizing freedom absolutely. The themes in this volume are motivated by a central ambivalence in Hegel's thinking about modernity. The question of freedom sits at the forefront of this text, alongside the relation between art and the spirit. This book will be of particular interest to philosophers of aesthetics, politics and ethics. |
Contents
| 1972 | |
| 1985 | |
Hegel on the Aesthetic Basis of State Sovereignty David Ciavatta | |
Bildung and the Novel in Hegels Lectures on Aesthetics Timothy L Brownlee | |
On Art Religion and Recognitive Communities Philip T Grier | |
Hegel on Romantic Art and Modernity John Russon | |
Hegel on Home and Homelessness in Romantic | |
Other editions - View all
Hegel's Political Aesthetics: Art in Modern Society Stefan Bird-Pollan,Vladimir Marchenkov Limited preview - 2020 |
Hegel's Political Aesthetics: Art in Modern Society Stefan Bird-Pollan,Vladimir Marchenkov No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
A. V. Miller Absolute Spirit achieve affirm Aleksei Losev argues art form art’s artistic artwork Ästhetik beauty Bildung Cambridge University Press Cavell character Christian claim classical art concept concrete consciousness constitutes criticism culture Danto dialectical distinction divine domain edited end of art epic essential ethical existence experience expression external finite finitude form of art Frankfurt am Main freedom G. W. F. Hegel Greek Hegel thinks Hegel’s account Hegel's Aesthetics Hegelian here-here Hotho Houlgate human Ibid ideal individual insofar interpretation intuition Lectures Losev manifest meaning modern moral myth nature novel objective spirit one’s Oxford University Press particular Phenomenology of Spirit philosophy of art Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Religion play political portrays practical precisely present Prometheus prosaic reality relation religious role romantic art sense sensuous social specific subjectivity sublation Suhrkamp symbolic art T. M. Knox theory tragedy trans transcends translated truth ultimate understanding Werke