This book offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self.
This book offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self.
This new, completely revised and re-written edition of Aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Schleimacher, to Nietzsche, in view of recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities.
New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed, but asccesible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities, following the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Ficthe and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Scleimacher, to Nietzsche. Develops the approaches to subjectivity, aesthetics, music and language in relation to new theoretical developments bridging the divide between the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy. The huge growth of interest in German philosophy as a resource for re-thinking both literary and cultural theory, and contemporary philosophy will make this an indispensible read
Aesthetics and modernity; aesthetics and "post-modernity". Part 1 Modern
philosophy and the emergence of aesthetic theory - Kant: self-consciousness,
knowledge and freedom; the unification of nature; the purpose of beauty; the
limits of beauty. Part 2 German idealism and early German Romanticism:
thinking the infinite; a "new mythology". Part 3 Reflections on the subject -
Fichte, Holderlin and Novalis: self and other; Fichte; Holderlin; Novalis.
Part 4 Schelling - art and the "Organ of Philosophy": nature and philosophy;
the development of consciousness; intuition and concept; the "organ of
philosophy"; mythology, art and modernity; mythology, language and being.
Part 5 Hegel - the beginning of aesthetic theory and the end of art: which
Hegel?; self-recognition; music and the idea; language, consciousness and
being; the idea as sensuous appearance; the prose of the modern world;
philosophy and art after Hegel. Part 6 Schleiermacher - art and
interpretation: linguistic; the "art of disagreement"; immediate
self-consciousness; art as free production: "individual" and "identical"
activity; hemeneutics as art; literature and the "musical". Part 7 Music,
language and literature: language and music; Hegel and romanticism - music,
logos, and feeling; the "presence" of music "infinite reflection" and music.
Part 8 Nietzsche and the fate of romantic thought: the old and the new
Nietzsches; Schopenhauer - music as metaphysics; Marx, mythology, and art;
art, myth, and music in "The Birth of Tragedy"; myth, music, and language;
the illusion of truth; music and metaphysics; aesthetics, "interpretation",
and subjectivity. Conclusion - the so-called "oldest system programme of
German idealism".
Andrew Bowie is Chair of German at Royal Holloway University of London
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