Art, myth and society in Hegel's aesthetics /
James, David, 1966-
Art, myth and society in Hegel's aesthetics / David James. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2009. - xii, 148 p.; 25 cm. - Continuum studies in philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-145) and index.
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 Lukacs'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.
9780826425607 (HB) 0826425607 (HB)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Aesthetics.
Religion--Philosophy.
History --Philosophy.
Kunstlerische Form
700.1 / J569 Ar
Art, myth and society in Hegel's aesthetics / David James. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2009. - xii, 148 p.; 25 cm. - Continuum studies in philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-145) and index.
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 Lukacs'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.
9780826425607 (HB) 0826425607 (HB)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Aesthetics.
Religion--Philosophy.
History --Philosophy.
Kunstlerische Form
700.1 / J569 Ar