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.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Aesthetics. Religion--Philosophy. History --Philosophy. Kunstlerische Form