Between Transcendence and Historicism
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Between Transcendence and Historicism

The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Between Transcendence and Historicism

The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics

About this book

Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel's aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Arguing that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel's philosophy of art, Brian K. Etter examines the poverty of modernist aesthetic theories in contrast to the affirmation by Hegel of the necessity of art. He focuses on the individual arts in greater detail than is normally done for Hegel's aesthetics, and considers how the dual constitution of the ethical nature of art can be justified, both within Hegel's own philosophical system and in terms of its relevance to the dilemmas of modern social life. Etter concludes that the arts have a responsibility to represent the goodness of existence, the ideal, and the ethical life in dignifying the metaxological realm through their beauty.

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Table of contents

  1. BetweenTranscendenceand Historicism
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Is Art Necessary?
  7. 2. Beauty and the Transcendenceof the Ideal
  8. 3. The Historicity of the Idealand the End of Art
  9. 4. Beauty, the Ideal, andRepresentational Art
  10. 5. The Sounds of the Ideal
  11. 6. The Ethical Function of Poetry
  12. 7. Beauty and Ornament inArchitectural Styles
  13. 8. Art and the Beauty of the Ethical Order
  14. 9. Normativity in the Arts and theParticularity of Tradition
  15. 10. Art and the Beauty of the Absolute
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index