Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art

Name: Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art
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ISBN: 9780198238164

ISBN-10: 0198238169

ISBN-13: 9780198238164

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: G. W. F. Hegel, T. M. Knox

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In his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece through to the Romantic movement of his own time, criticizes major works, and probes their meaning and significance; his rich array of examples gives broad scope for his judgement and makes vivid his exposition of his theory. The substantial Introduction is Hegel's best exposition of his general philosophy of art, and provides the ideal way into his Aesthetics. In Part I he considers the general nature of art: he distinguishes art, as a spiritual experience, from religion and philosophy; he discusses the beauty of art and differentiates it from the…

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List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was perhaps the most systematic of the post-Kantian idealist German philosophers. T. M. Knox translated many of Hegel's works into English. Harry Burrows Acton (1908-1974) was a British academic philosopher known for defending the morality of capitalism. John R. Silber was president of Boston University from 1971 until 1996.







The System of the Individual Arts



Architecture



Sculpture



The Romantic Arts


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