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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Penguin Classics)
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HEGEL, GEORGE W
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ISBN: 9780140433357
Author: HEGEL, GEORGE W
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 Hegel, the contrast between the classical and modern worlds was stark:
- In classical Greece, artists achieved a perfect fusion of content and form.
- In modernity, however, complicating — and ultimately disabling — questions arose.
Key Challenges to Modern Art:
- Christianity's code of unworldliness: This had compromised the immediacy of man's relationship with reality.
- Ironic detachment: It had alienated humanity from its deepest feelings.
Hegel's Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics were delivered in Berlin in the 1820s. They remain a passionately argued work, challenging the ability of art to respond to the complexities of the modern world.
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