The Impact of Idealism: Volume 3, Aesthetics and Literature

The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought

Christoph Jamme, Ian Cooper, Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107039841
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107497061
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The first study of its kind, The Impact of Idealism assesses the impact of classical German philosophy on science, religion and culture. This third volume explores German Idealism's impact on the literature, art and aesthetics of the last two centuries. Each essay focuses on the legacy of an idea or concept from the high point of German philosophy around 1800, tracing out its influence on the intervening period and its importance for contemporary discussions. As well as a broad geographical and historical range, including Greek tragedy, George Eliot, Thomas Mann and Samuel Beckett, and key musicians and artists such as Wagner, Andy Warhol and Frank Lloyd Wright, the volume's thematic focus is broad. Engaging closely with the key aesthetic texts of German Idealism, this collection uses examples from literature, music, art, architecture and museum studies to demonstrate Idealism's continuing influence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Idealism in aesthetics and literature
• 1 The legacy of Idealism and the rise of academic aesthetics
• 2 Hegel’s philosophical theory of action: the concept of action in Hegel’s practical philosophy and aesthetics
• 3 Tragedy and the human image: German Idealism’s legacy for theory and practice
• 4 Romanticism as literary Idealism, or: a 200-year-old way of talking about literature
• 5 Idealism in nineteenth-century German literature
• 6 Idealism in nineteenth-century British and American literature
• 7 Elements of Schopenhauer’s thought in Beckett
• 8 German Idealism and the philosophy of music
• 9 The music of German Idealism
• 10 ‘Refiner of all human relations’: Karl Friedrich Schinkel as an Idealist theorist
• 11 Influences of German Idealism on nineteenth-century architectural theory: Schelling and Leo von Klenze
• 12 ‘Making a world’: the impact of Idealism on museum formation in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts
• 13 Hegel, Danto and the ‘end of art’
• Bibliography
• Index