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1 online resource (xii, 148 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Continuum studies in philosophy
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Continuum studies in philosophy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145) and index. |
| Contents |
The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life. |
| Summary |
Art, Myth and Society in Hegel''s Aesthetics returns to the student transcripts of Hegel''s lectures on aesthetics, which have yet to be translated into English and in some cases remain unpublished. David James develops the idea that these transcripts show that Hegel was primarily interested in understanding art as an historical phenomenon and, more specifically, in terms of its role in the ethical life of various peoples. This involves relating Hegel''s aesthetics to his philosophies of right and history, rather than to his logic or metaphysics. The book thus offers a thorough re-evaluation o. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. |
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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Religion -- Philosophy. |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786612189371 9780826425607 (DLC) 2008047933 (OCoLC)276138792 |
| ISBN |
9781441175977 (electronic book) |
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1441175970 (electronic book) |
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9781441172105 (paperback) |
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1441172106 (paperback) |
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9780826425607 (hardback) |
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0826425607 (hardback) |
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