The German Aesthetic Tradition

279 Pages·2002·1.58 MB·English

by  Kai Hammermeister

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TheGermanAestheticTradition
ThisistheonlyavailablesystematiccriticaloverviewofGermanaes-
theticsfrom1750tothepresent.Thebookbeginswiththeworkof
Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics
thatfollow,includingKant,Schiller,Schelling,Hegel,andNietzsche
uptoHeidegger,Gadamer,andAdorno.Thebookoffersaclearand
nontechnicalexpositionofideas,placingtheseinawiderphilosoph-
icalcontextwherenecessary.
SuchistheimportanceofGermanaestheticsthatthemarketfor
this book will extend far beyond the domain of philosophy to such
fieldsasliterarystudies,fineart,andmusic.
Kai Hammermeister teaches in the Department of Germanic Lan-
guagesandLiteratureatTheOhioStateUniversity.

The German Aesthetic Tradition
KAI HAMMERMEISTER
TheOhioStateUniversity
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Contents
Preface page ix
part i. the age of paradigms
1 Baumgarten,Mendelssohn 3
2 Kant 21
3 Schiller 42
4 Schelling 62
5 Hegel 87
part ii. challenging the paradigms
6 Schopenhauer 111
7 Kierkegaard,Nietzsche 128
part iii. renewing the paradigms
8 Cassirer,Luka´cs 153
9 Heidegger,Gadamer 173
10 Adorno 194
Conclusion 213
Notes 217
Bibliography 245
Index 257
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