The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 4 (of 4) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 4 (of 4)" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is a compilation of lecture notes from courses given between 1818 and 1829. Hegel presents art as a mode of absolute spirit, tracing its development through symbolic, classical, and romantic stages. He examines five major arts—architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry—in ascending order of inwardness. This influential work explores art's historical dissolution and its place as truth made sensible, shaping aesthetic theory for generations of philosophers and thinkers. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
Translator Osmaston, Francis Plumptre Beresford, 1857-1925
Title The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 4 (of 4)
Hegel's Aesthetik
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectures_on_Aesthetics
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 36.9 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class N: Fine Arts
Subject Aesthetics
Category Text
eBook-No. 55731
Release Date
Last Update Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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