Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel’s Aesthetics

475 Pages·1986·1.08 MB·English

by  William Desmond

Art and the Absolute : A Study of Hegel's
title: Aesthetics SUNY Series in Hegelian
Studies
author: Desmond, William.
publisher: State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin: 0887061508
print isbn13: 9780887061509
ebook isbn13: 9780585063355
language: English
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,--1770-
1831--Aesthetics, Aesthetics, Modern--19th
subject
century, Art--Philosophy--History--19th
century.
publication date: 1986
lcc: B2949.A4D47 1986eb
ddc: 111/.85/0924
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,--1770-
1831--Aesthetics, Aesthetics, Modern--19th
subject:
century, Art--Philosophy--History--19th
century.
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Art and the Absolute
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SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies
Quentin Lauer. S.J., Editor
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Art and the Absolute
A Study Of Hegel's Aesthetics
William Desmond
State University of New York Press
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TO MARIA AND WILLIAM ÓG
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Desmond, William, 1951
Art and the absolute.
(SUNY series in Hegelian studies)
Bibliography
1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 17701831
Contributions in aesthetics. 2. Aesthetics, Modern
19th century. 3. ArtPhilosophyHistory19th century.
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Contents
Preface vii
Introduction xi
Chapter One. Art, Imitation and Creation 1
Imitation: Art and the Metaphysics of Image and 1
Original,
Creation: Art and Sensuous Self-Knowledge, 5
Art and Philosophy: Openness and Subordination, 10
Chapter Two. Art, Philosophy and Concreteness 15
The Tension of Image and Concept, 15
The Question of Concreteness, 18
Concreteness and the Art Work, 21
Concreteness and the Philosophical Concept, 23
Art and Philosophy as Complementary Modes of 29
Concrete Articulation,
Chapter Three. Art, Religion and Absoluteness 35
Art, Religion and Absolute Spirit, 35
Art as "Aesthetic," 37
Art as "Religious": Symbolical, Classical and Romantic 40
Art,
Art as "Religious": Creativity and Geist, 44
The Aesthetic and the Religious: On Right-and Left- 49
Hegelian Readings,
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Chapter Four: Art, History and the Question of an End 57
Art and the Question of History, 57
Art and Time: Dialectic in Imaginative Form, 60
Art, History and the Embodiment of an "Open" End, 67
Art's Wholeness and the Problem of Closure, 71
Chapter Five. Dialectic, Deconstruction and Art's 77
Wholeness
Deconstruction and the Absence of the Absolute, 77
Literary Theory and the Question of Wholeness, 81
Art and Post-Hegelianism: The Nietzschean- 83
Heideggerian Heritage,
Identity, Difference and Deconstruction, 88
Identity, Difference and Dialectic, 91
Dialectic, Art and Wholeness, 96
Chapter Six. Beauty and the Aesthetic Dilemma of 103
Modernity
Beauty and the Absolute, 103
The Ambiguity of Beauty for Hegel and His Era: 106
Enthusiasm and Scepticism,
Beauty in Eclipse: Subjectivity in Excess, 114
Ancient Beauty and the Modern Expressive Subject: 120
Hegel in Relation to Platonic and Kantian Aesthetics,
Beauty and the Overcoming of Metaphysical Dualisms: 130