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Hegel on Beauty

By Julia Peters

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
113879595X, 9781138795952
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1984703 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
172\0
Time added
2017-06-14 00:44:48
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Description

While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel’s aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher’s controversial ‘end of art’ thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel’s ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel’s views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us to rethink the common assumption that Hegelian beauty is exclusive to art and argues that for Hegel beauty, like art, is subject to historical development. Her careful analysis of Hegel’s notion of beauty not only has crucial implications for our understanding of the ‘end of art’ and Hegel’s aesthetics in general, but also sheds light on other fields of Hegel’s philosophy, in particular his anthropology and aspects of his ethical thought.

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