Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, 9780140433357
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Can art survive modernity’s challenges? Hegel’s passionate aesthetic inquiry.

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    26 May 1993

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Summary

The Twilight of Beauty: Hegel’s Challenge to Modern Art

A passionately argued work on the philosophy of aesthetics.

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. Christi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140433357
ISBN-10:014043335X
Series:Penguin Classics
Author:Georg Hegel, Michael Inwood, Bernard Bosanquet
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:1st
Release Date:26 May 1993
Weight:194g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 15mm
About The Author

Georg Hegel

Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the most important of modern philosophers, due to his relation to Marx and the support his philosophy seemed to offer to theories of nationalism and social democracy, and his impact on a range of humanities. He is best known for The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic, The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and The Philosophy of Right, as well as his lectures, which were published posthumously by his friends.

Bernard Bosanquet was a Fellow of University College, Oxford teaching philosophy and ancient history. From 1903 to 1908 he held the chair of moral philosophy at St Andrews. He died in 1923.

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