Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · January 4, 1994
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- Who it’s for
- Hegel’s account of art is both deeply admiring and sharply doubtful about its modern prospects.
- Themes
- Art and aesthetics, Art's place in modernity, Classical and modern art
- Genres
- Aesthetics, Art Criticism & Ideas, Philosophers & Their Ideas
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No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions.
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Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, had compromised the immediacy of man's relationship with reality, and ironic detachment had alienated him from his deepest feelings. Hegel's Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics were delivered in Berlin in the 1820s and stand today as a passionately argued work that challenged the ability of art to respond to the modern world.
Art Under Pressure
Hegel’s account of art is both deeply admiring and sharply doubtful about its modern prospects.
Come here for
- A bold pairing of classical ideals and modern unease
- A philosophical case for taking art seriously
Expect
- Passionately argued lectures from 1820s Berlin
- Questions about how art meets a changing world
Where it sits
| Aesthetics | 93% |
|---|---|
| Art Criticism & Ideas | 55% |
| Philosophers & Their Ideas | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art Criticism & Ideas
- German Literary Collections
- Aesthetics
- Authors
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Michael Inwood
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- January 4, 1994
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Art and aesthetics · Art's place in modernity · Classical and modern art
- Reading lane
- Art Criticism & Ideas