Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

Name: Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
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By Georg Hegel

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In Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, Georg Hegel explores the philosophical dimensions of art and beauty. He delves into the nature of artistic creation and appreciation, examining how art reflects cultural and historical contexts. Through these lectures, Hegel lays the groundwork for understanding aesthetics as a vital part of his broader philosophical system.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in exploring the philosophical ideas of art, beauty, and aesthetics through the unique perspective of one of history's most influential philosophers, Hegel. It offers a thoughtful analysis of the role of art in culture and its connection to human consciousness, appealing to those intrigued by the intersection of philosophy and art.

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

Christianity 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 as a passionately argued work that challenged the ability of art to respond to the modern world.

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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. 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140433357

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 May 1993

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Edited by Michael Inwood
Introduction by Michael Inwood
Translated by Bernard Bosanquet
Edited by Michael Inwood
Edited by Michael Inwood

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 194g

Pages: 256

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Biography & Memoir Georg Hegel Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Hegel (1770-1831) is one of hte 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.